PRECEDENTS IN CONVEYANCING; WITH Dissertations ON ITS LAW AND PRACTICE. FOURTEENTH EDITION. BY FREDERICK PRIDEAUX, LATE PROFESSOR OF THE LAW OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY TO THE INNS OF court, AND JOHN WHITCOMBE, BOTH OF LINCOLN'S INN, ESQRS., BARRISTERS-AT-LAW. VOL. I. LONDON: STEVENS AND SONS, LIMITED, Law Publishers and Booksellers, 119, CHANCERY LANE, PREFACE. THE necessity for issuing a fourteenth edition of this work gives the editors satisfactory assurance that its usefulness continues to be recognized by the profession. It has been their aim to make each successive edition an improvement on its predecessors, not only by a careful revision of the text throughout, with reference to new Acts of Parliament and new judicial decisions, but also by the expansion from time to time of the Dissertations, and the addition of new Precedents. In the present edition the Dissertation on "Searches" has been to a great extent re-written, and in the Dissertation on "Purchase Deeds" some of the subjects, especially that of covenants running with the land and restrictive covenants, are more fully considered. The Precedents of Purchase Deeds are followed under the same heading by miscellaneous instruments connected with sales, and in like manner the Precedents of Mortgages, Leases, and Settlements are accompanied by other instruments connected with these transactions. Some additions to, and alterations in the arrangement of the Precedents of "Wills" will be noticed. The interpretation placed by the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords in recent cases on section 9 of the Bills of Sale Act, 1882, has necessitated a very careful revision of the Dissertation on this subject, and also the omission of several forms of Bills of Sale which were inserted in former editions. Two new Dissertations have been added, the one on "Arrangements with Creditors," and the other on "Charity Deeds," each being followed by several appropriate Precedents. The Statutes which have passed since the publication of the last edition-of which the most important are: The Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888; The Trustee Act, 1888; The Land Charges Registration and Searches Act, 1888; The Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1888; The Copyhold Act, 1887; and The Law of Distress Amendment Act, 1888,-are referred to in their proper places, and the New Rules issued under the Land Charges, &c. Act are added to the Appendix. January, 1889. F. P. |