SEABORNE'S VENDORS AND PURCHASERS BEING c# BUTTERWORTH & CO., 12 BELL YARD, W.C. Law Publishers 1901 UK SE PREFACE TO FIFTH EDITION THE favourable reception accorded to the Fourth Edition of "Seaborne's Vendors and Purchasers" encourages me to hope that this short treatise has been found of practical utility by the legal profession. Some slight increase in the size of the book has been rendered necessary, as well by the unusually large number of decisions affecting vendors and purchasers which have been reported during the last four years, as by the important changes which have been made by the legislature in the law relating to the descent and transfer of land. Points arising out of Registration of Title will, it is believed, be found treated of in the appropriate places; but I have for the most part acted upon the assumption, which seems fully justified by the existing practice, that for many years to come only possessory titles will be registered. In deference to the suggestions of V |