Students' Precedents in Conveyancing

IN CONVEYANCING.

COLLECTED AND ARRANGED

BY

JAMES W. CLARK, M.A.,

OF LINCOLN'S INN; ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S COUNSEL; LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY HALL,
CAMBRIDGE; ONE OF THE EDITORS OF "GOODEVE'S MODERN LAW OF REAL
PROPERTY," AND OF "GOODEVE'S MODERN LAW OF PERSONAL PROPERTY;"
ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF "ELPHINSTONE, NORTON, AND CLARK

ON INTERPRETATION OF DEEDS," AND

CLARK ON SEARCHES."

ELPHINSTONE AND

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

SWEET & MAXWELL, LIMD., 3, CHANCERY LANE,
Taw Bublishers.

MEREDITH, RAY, & LITTLER, MANCHESTER ;

HODGES, FIGGIS, & CO. LTD., AND E. PONSONBY, DUBLIN.

1905.

AT
PR.R
05945

BRADBURY, AGNEW, & Co. LD., PRINTERS LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.

THIS Collection of elementary forms has been made at the suggestion of my learned friend SirHoward Elphinstone, who, from his experience as Reader in the Law of Real and Personal Property in the Inns of Court, has formed the opinion that such a manual would be found useful by teachers of law and their pupils. It is hoped that students may derive from these forms some help in reading text books on the law of real property. A book of this kind cannot lay claim to originality, and my work has for the most part been merely to set forth, with a few slight variations, some of the simpler precedents which will be found in approved collections, such as "Key and Elphinstone's Compendium," Davidson's "Concise Precedents," and Mr. Wolstenholme's Precedents.

I have to express my grateful appreciation of the generous kindness which has allowed me to make use of the works referred to for the purposes of this little book, which, it need hardly be said, is not designed for use in practice, but merely as an aid to study.

C.P.C.

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PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.

It is not within the scope of my work to give any explanations of the text: and I have merely added references to the best known elementary text books dealing with its subject matter.

Part I. contains specimens of the forms used in modern Conveyancing. In Part II. I have printed some forms (such as Feoffment, Fine, Recovery, Conveyance by Lease and Release) which are obsolete, but with which the student of real property law ought to be acquainted.

J. W. C.

LINCOLN'S INN,

June, 1893.

NOTE TO THIRD EDITION.

IN this Edition I have added in Part III. the Forms, Nos. 20 and 44, of Instruments of Transfer of Land and of Charge, prescribed by the Land Transfer Rules, 1903, and have made a few slight corrections of the text.

LINCOLN'S INN,

July, 1905.

J. W. C.

CONTENTS.

PRECEDENTS.

PART I.

MODERN FORMS.

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