A PRACTICAL TREATISE OF THE LAW OF VENDORS AND PURCHASERS OF ESTATES. BY THE RIGHT HON. SIR EDWARD SUGDEN. I. N TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME I. BONÆ FIDEI VENDITOREM, NEC COMMODORUM SPEM AUGERE, NEC INCOMMODORUM Valerius Maximus, 1. vii. c. 11. With notes and References of American Decisions on the Law of Vendors BY J. C. PERKINS, ESQ. SEVENTH AMERICAN FROM THE ELEVENTH LONDON EDITIO N. SPRINGFIELD, MASS. PUBLISHED BY GEO. AND CHAS MERRIAM. ENTERED ACCORDING TO THE ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1851, BY G. & C. MERRIAM, IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS. H. S. TAYLOR, PRINTER, ADVERTISEMENT TO THIS SEVENTH AMERICAN EDITION. THE following work of Sir Edward Sugden, contains an elaborate statement and a thorough discussion of all the points relating to Contracts for the sale of Real Estate. The formation of the Contract-its validitythe evidence that may be introduced to affect it--the mode of rescinding or enforcing it, and the remedy on a breach of it, have each been treated by the author with great amplitude and clearness. No treatise contains so much reliable and practical learning on the subject of specific performance. Not only has the author most fully stated the law as derived from Reports and other books of authority on the subject matters of the work, but he has infused into it a large amount of his own various, practical and accurate learning, extremely useful to the profession, but not to be found in the Reports or other books. The editor of this American edition has endeavored to adapt the work to the most convenient use of the profession in the United States. The notes to this edition are entirely new. The editor has prepared them without any regard to former editions. Such was found to be the most useful course, although it has |