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An essay in a course of lectures on abstracts of title
An essay in a course of lectures on abstracts of title Author:Richard Preston Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO THE READER. 1HE Third Volume of the Essay On Abstracts Of Title is now offered to the Public, and the work may be considered as complete. The original d... more »esign of conveying information to pupils has never been abandoned: The simplicity of the work, and the facility with which the subjects may be comprehended by young men at their first entrance on their studies, are the principal, indeed the only, value of this work. This work, like the more useful textit{grammar of any textit{science, is employed on first principles, and their application, rather than on the examination or the discussion of abstruse subjects, or controverted or disputable points. Utility was the object; and if that object be accomplished, the work will answer the purpose for which it was designed. A late case, Jerrilt textit{v, Weare, 3 Price 575, demands the reader's attention; the decision on that case may be supposed to call for a correction of the propositions in 2 Vol. p. 292, on the Learning of Disseisins. When the author advanced those propositions, the identical case of Jerritt and Weare was under his consideration. He stated the propositions with the fullest conviction of their accuracy, and as a necessary part of the system of Tenures, flowing from clear principles of Law. When he shall be convinced of the inaccuracy of these propositions he will either alter or withdraw them. The only duty he has to perform at present is to apprize the reader of the existence of the case of Jerritt textit{v. Weare. His respect for the decision of the Courts will not allow of his entering into an examination of the reasoning of the Judge who presided, and by whom the judgment was delivered. Great as were the facility and despatch with which this Essay was originally composed (by dictation to pupils...« less