ERRATA.

Page 141, line 4. After the word

Deduction," add, "AND THAT until the same premises shall be surrendered in pursuance of this covenant the said A. B. and his heirs will stand seised of the same premises, IN TRUST for the said C. D., his heirs and assigns, SUBJECT to such equity of redemption, as the same would be subject to if the same had been so surrendered as aforesaid." Add also a reference to p. 87 n. (b).

Page 340, n. (a), for p. 87, n. (a), read p. 87, n. (b).

INTRODUCTION.

the work.

THE object of the First Edition of the pre- Object of sent Work was to take the opportunity, suggested by the "Act to simplify the Transfer of Property" (a), of submitting to the Profession some Precedents of Assurances, of more concise form and language than those in ordinary use. Not that the Act necessitated any considerable change in the forms of assurances, but because it seemed desirable to follow up the proceeding of the Legislature with such assistance as the Profession could of itself afford; and it appeared to the Author, that, as the compiler and editor of a Collection of Precedents, which had been marked by the approbation of the most eminent conveyancing counsel, he might, without impropriety, take upon himself the office of endeavouring to simplify the forms hitherto in use for the transfer of

Property. The attempt was very favourably received by the Profession; but the Act to which the first edition of the work had reference having been repealed, and a new statute (a) passed in lieu of the repealed Act, it became necessary, in the second and subsequent editions, to remodel some of the Precedents, and to make alterations in the greater number of them; and also to introduce the new Act, with a few notes and observations upon its enactments.

It is believed, that nearly every Precedent in the book will (when the parcels are of moderate length) be contained in a single skin, and that hardly any will exceed two; but it must at the same time be borne in mind, that (except in those cases in which the Amendment Act has authorised an alteration) the Precedents differ in no material respect from those which have been long and constantly used by the Profession.

(a) 8 & 9 Vict. c. 106, infra, Appendix I. The reasons for the repeal of the first, and for the provisions of the second Act, will be found very clearly and happily expressed in a letter, addressed by Mr. Bellenden Ker to the Lord Chancellor, which, by the kind permission of Mr. Ker, was published in the preceding editions of the present work, but is now omitted as having lost public interest.