THE PREFACE. No experienc'd Conveyan cer can be fuppos'd ig norant in placing and connexing the particular Parts of a Deed or Conveyance, but it may be prefum'd that the Memory of eve ry Practifer, (tho' of good Judgment) may not be fufficient to retain and exactly remember every Covenant and Part of a Deed, especially when it is of great length, and that his Experience may not fully enable him to draw an uncommon Draught without fome Af fiftance, at least not without much Labour and Difficulty: I have therefore compiled this Volume as a Remembrancer of whata A 2 Con veyancer may have fome Knowledge of, and as a Guide and Information in many special Cafes, that he may not have met with in Practice; and it will be particularly useful as an itinerant Library, or Office, to affift the Conveyancer when he is abfent from home, whereby he hath not the Benefit of his Papers; and even at home in his Office it will be no lefs Ufeful when the Business in Hand is very uncommon and extraordinary, or (as the Cafe often happens) he can. not turn to an entire Precedent fuiting his Occafion. Some Attorneys there are who advance Notions, That Forms of Covenants in Deeds, or of Deeds themselves, are useless, and pretend to draw a Deed or Conveyance according to Law, without any Affiftance from Precedents, cedents, and on that Foundation difregard the Methods obferved by experienced Practitioners; which, however defpifed by the unthinking, must be efteem'd by the careful and prudent Practifer, as a fure Directory, if not effential: But thefe opiniated Gentlemen, after struggling with great Difficulties,have frequently found themselves mistaken in their Defigns to the prejudice of their Clients, as well as the Injury of their Reputations, and been at laft obliged to refort to Prece dents, for the Dispatch of their Affairs, with the exactness that is neceffary; as Precedents certainly compleat the Man of Bufinefs, and are of the greatest Ule where a Person is not entirely govern'd by them, and has Senfe enough to make a proper Application. |