** The portion of this work which related to Bankruptcy is omitted in this Edition (see Preface, p. x.) The Author purposes (if circumstances should permit) to make Bankruptcy the subject of a distinct Manual. EDITOR OF FEARNE'S CONTINGENT REMAINDERS AND MITFORDS CHANGERY PLEADINGS,' A MANUAL OF EQUITY, ETC. AND ONE OF THE CONSOLIDATORS OF THE CHANCERY ORDERS. Second Edition, greatly improbed. LONDON: STEVENS, SONS, AND HAYNES, 26 BELL YARD, LINCOLN'S INN. PREFACE ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION. THIS small volume is founded on about seventy text-books, which are referred to in it as often as any use has been made of them, and in other instances where a reference to them seemed desirable. And it is designed as a Companion to the Author's Manual of Equity, which has long been used for examination by the Council of Legal Education at Lincoln's Inn, and a seventh edition of which has recently been published. The Student may not be able to resort to the treatises on the more specific heads of Law which are cited in these pages; but it will of course be necessary for him to pass on from the perusal of this book to the study of some other general Text-books. And from their comprehensiveness, and the very able, agreeable, and instructive style in which they are written, the Author would recom |