the present attempt to facilitate a knowledge of the Law of Property, so far as it primarily bears upon Conveyancing, and consequently is also connected with Equity and Common Law, and although the time expended upon the undertaking has far exceeded that which a book upon any particular subject would have required, yet it is with the utmost diffidence that he ventured to submit the present work to the Profession. Though it may fall far short of what he, so far as the time at his command would permit, has endeavoured to make it, yet he trusts it is calculated to prove a valuable nucleus of that generally applicable and useful, and therefore really practical learning, which it is needful for every one to appropriate to himself, and around which he may readily agglomerate such further "amiable and admirable secrets of the law" (a) as he may think expedient and possible to be stored up in his mind. And the Author has had the satisfaction of receiving ample testimony to its usefulness, whether as a book to be read and got up, or as a book to be referred to, for the rapid exigencies of daily practice. PART II. Of the several kinds of Enterests constituting the Subjects of V. OF VOID CONDITIONS AND LIMITATIONS VI.-THE PERIOD TO WHICH THE EVENT OF DEATH, CHAP. I.-OF COPYHOLDS GENERALLY II.-OF THE EXTINCTION OF MANORS, MANORIAL RIGHTS, AND COPYHOLDS, AT THE COMMON III.-OF THE COMMUTATION OF MANORIAL RIGHTS, (a) It was difficult to find an appropriate place for this subject. But 164 165 166 2.-Of Limited Fees: and First, of Base or 3.-Of Fees subject to a Condition Subsequent or 2. Of the Modes of preventing, at Law and in Equity, the Title to Dower from arising, independently of the Dower Act: and 3. Of the Modes in which Dower may be barred or lost, at Law and in Equity, after the Title to it has arisen, independently of the |