PREFACE TO AMERICAN EDITION. WOODFALL'S "Landlord and Tenant" was first published in 1802, remodelled in 1830, and the thirteenth English edition was issued in January, 1886. The high standing of this treatise in England and America makes any lengthy commendation on the part of the American editor unnecessary. The thorough, practical, and scientific character of the treatise, with the historical sketch it contains, gives it great value to any one desiring an accurate knowledge of this branch of the law. With the exception of statutory matter, easily distinguishable, the greater part of the principles laid down are law to-day in America. Statutes more or less diverse and other localisms exist in all the states, separating one from another almost as much as from England. It is the province of the American editor, so far as he may, to point them out and to explain, sustain, or qualify the doctrines of the text by the American decisions. This will relieve the practitioner, in part, from the labor of examining the local decisions. He has also added some topics in his notes which have never been adequately treated before; as well as given a full discussion of all the more important points in landlord and tenant law, with a view to making the treatise of the utmost value to the American bar. W. W. |