charged or his agent, 33; what property is within the fourth

section of the Statute of Frauds, 33, 34, 35; the whole agreement

must be in writing, 35; what is a sufficient signing, 35; sales by

auction within the statute, 36; when letters constitute agreement,

37; consequence of change of circumstances between contract and

conveyance, 38; contract not affected by the bankruptcy of the

vendor or purchaser, 39; nor by the death of either party, 39;

operation of contract for purchase or sale on general devises, 39;

stamps on agreements, 40; time within which agreement must be

stamped, 40; stamp on purchase of several lots at an auction, 40.

3.-ON PURCHASE DEEDS, p. 51.

A feoffment was the ancient mode of conveyance, 51; the feoffment

afterwards superseded by lease and release, 51; corporeal

hereditaments now lie in grant, 52; who are capable of and

incapacitated from selling and purchasing, 52; infants, 52;

lunatics, 53; trustees, &c., 53; solicitors, 54; aliens, 54; married

women, 54; corporations, 55; charity, 55; as to satisfied terms,

55; act for dispensing with their assignment, 56; where incum-

brances should be kept on foot, 56; preparation of deeds, 57;

proper recitals in a purchase deed, 57; dower of widow, how

defeated, 58; form of covenants for title, 58; covenants entered

into by trustees, 59; operation of covenants for title, 59; covenant

for further assurance, 59; conveyance to joint tenants, 59; effect

where purchasers advance the purchase money in different

proportions, 60; proper form of conveyance to partners, 60;

purchase by partners, 60; purchase in the name of a nominal

purchaser, 61; as to attested copies of deeds not delivered up,

61; costs of conveyance, 62; costs of surrender of and admission

to copyholds, 62; how incumbrances should be got in, 62; stamps

on purchase deeds, 62, et seq.; statement of consideration, 63;

where the consideration is stock, 64; deed must be stamped to be

offered in evidence, 64; rules for calculating the ad valorem duty

to be paid, 65; duty where the consideration is an annuity, 66;

where a deed stamp is payable no ad valorem is chargeable, 67 ;

stamp on duplicates, 67; duty on separate deed of covenant, 67 ;

what is property within the meaning of the Stamp Act, 68;

progressive duty, 70; power of commissioners to determine duty,

70; commencement of title, 70; inquiry as to existing leases, 71;

search for incumbrances, 71.

4.-ON SEARCHES FOR INCUMBRANCES.

Search when property is in a register county, 72; search for judgments

in local registry, 72; purchasers with notice, 73; operation of judg-

ment, 73; at law, 73; in equity, 74; no charge on benefices, 74;

provisions for the registration of judgments, 74, 75; provisions for

re-registration, 76; provisions of former act explained, 76; as to

purchasers and mortgagees without notice, 78; as to judgments

obtained in inferior courts, 78; as to searches for judgments gene-

rally, 78; effect of bankruptcy, 79; search for judgments, &c.,

against mortgagee, unnecessary, 79; as to judgments of palatine

courts, 80; search for lis pendens, 80; search for annuities, 80;

when the rolls of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Courts should

be searched, 81; debts by simple contract to the crown, 81;

operation of specialties to the crown, 81; accountants, 82; pro-

visions for the registration of crown debts, 82; searches for

crown debts, 82; solicitor should never omit proper searches, 83.

5.-ON THE DISPOSITION OF THE PROPERTY OF BANKRUPTS

AND INSOLVENTS, p. 116.

Provisions of the Bankrupt Consolidation Act, 116; appointment of

assignees, 116; assignees may execute powers, 116; and redeem

conditional estates, 116; sales to purchaser after act of bank-

ruptcy, 116; the bankrupt's leaseholds, 117; acceptance or

refusal thereof by assignees, 117; power of court to sell copy-

holds of bankrupt, 117; mode of sale by assignees of bankrupt,

117; sale of the real estate of insolvent, 118; vesting of insolvent's

estate in the assignees, 118; as to the lands of insolvent acquired

after the final order, 119; judgment to be entered up before final

discharge, and operation thereof, 120.

6.-ON THE LAW RELATING TO HUSBAND AND WIFE, p. 126.

The husband's interest in his wife's freeholds, 126; and in her chattels

real, 126; husband's interest in his wife's choses in action, 127;

wife's right to dower in husband's lands, 128; Dower Act, 128;

what constitutes title to dower, 129; mode of alienating copy-

holds by a married woman, 129; limitations to the separate use

of feme covert, 130; restraint on anticipation, 130; as to the

disposition of the savings of feme covert, 131; her contracts, 131;

wife's right to furniture settled to her separate use as against

husband's assignees, 131; as to powers to be exercised during

the coverture, 131; liability of wife's separate estate to her

general engagements, 132; husband's right by survivorship, 132;

as to a wife's power of disposition over her interest in land, 132;

she has no power of disposition over reversionary personalty,

133; acknowledgments by her, and how to be made, 134; title

of a purchaser from a married woman, when complete, 135;

orders of Hilary Term, 135; affidavit verifying the certificate,

136; husband's marital right, 136; as to the payment of choses

in action, 137; wife's equity to a settlement, 137; a married

woman may disclaim, 138; husband's privilege where his wife is

executrix, 138.

7. ON MORTGAGES, p. 187.

Ancient mode of mortgaging freeholds, 187; present form of mort-

gage, 187; equitable mortgage by deposit of deeds, 188; as to

securities by the deposit of title deeds, 188; effect of the deposit

of lease, 189; mortgage of leaseholds by underlease, 189; reme-

dies of mortgagee in equity, 189; and in bankruptcy, 189; what

power to charge authorizes, 189; executor's right to mortgage,

190; form of leases of the mortgaged estate, 190; claims for

arrears of interest, 190; proper form of the power of sale, 190;

right of mortgagee against the land, 191; as to the exercise of

the power of sale after default, 192; the person to sell and to

receive the money should be identical, 192; powers of mortgagee

on mortgagor's bankruptcy, 193; extent of security where it

extends to future advances, 193; mortgagor when entitled to

redeem, 194; mortgagee when entitled to tack, 194; provisions

of Trustee Act, 194; stamps on mortgages, 196.

8.-ON BILLS OF SALE, p. 312.

As to fraudulent alienations of goods and chattels, 312; as to

bonâ fide assurances, 313; instances where debtor may retain

possession of the goods, 313; effect of the bankruptcy of the

donor of a bill of sale, 314; what transactions are protected,

315; immoveable chattels may be retained, 315; goods leased

when not affected by the bankruptcy of lessee, 316; what is

and what is not an act of bankruptcy, 316; property in the order

and disposition of insolvents, 317; voluntary charges by insol-

vents, 317; no person can avail himself of a bill of sale after

the insolvency of donor, 318; decisions under the provisions of

the Insolvent Acts, 319; Simpson v. Wood, 319; Congreve v.

Evetts, 321; the time of the creditor acquiring possession of

the future property important, 322; provisions of the act for the

registration of bills of sale, 322; every defeazance must be

written on the same paper, 325; book to be kept and fees for

searching, 325; construction of the act as to the meaning of

"bill of sale," 325; "personal chattels," 325; and " apparent pos-

session," 325; provisions of the Bankrupt and Insolvent Acts not

affected by the act for the registration of bills of sale, 325, 326.

9.-ON LEASES, p. 338.

Leases for more than three years must be by deed, 338; lease in

terms cannot be supported as an agreement, 338; landlord's

power of distress, 338; limitations as to arrears of rent, 339;

merger, 339; as to merger of reversion, 339; liability of tenant

in case of fire, 340; lessee's liability under covenant to pay rent,

340; lessee's covenant to pay all taxes, 341; tenancies from year

to year, 341; tenant from year to year is entitled to notice, 341;

at what time notice must expire, 341; where equity will relieve

against breach of condition of re-entry, 341; lessor's right of entry

will not pass to his assignee, 342; when forfeiture is waived, 342;

effect of a covenant to insure in names of lessor and lessee, 342;

by whom expense of lease is borne, 342; effect of covenants not

to assign or underlet, 342; how covenant not to assign should

be revived in case of license once given, 343; apportionment of

rent, 343; construction of the apportionment act, 344; stamps

on leases, 345.

10.-ON DISENTAILING ASSURANCES, p. 397.

Powers of a tenant in tail in possession or remainder, 397; enlarge-
ment of base fees, 397; the power of a tenant in tail to enlarge
base fee, 397; general rule as to the person who shall be protec-
tor, 398; power to settlor to appoint a protector, 399; assurances
by tenant in tail (except certain leases), are inoperative unless
inrolled in Chancery within six months, 399; consent of pro-
tector how given, 399; dispositions by married women tenants
in tail, 399; tenants in tail of lands held by copy of Court roll,

399; power of equitable tenants in tail, 400; confirmation of

voidable estates by a tenant in tail in favour of a purchaser, 400;

as to lands to be sold where the purchase money is subject to

be invested in the purchase of lands to be entailed, and where

money is subject to be invested in like manner, 402; operation

of enrolment, 403; effect of adverse possession as against tenants

in tail, 404, 405.

11.-ON COMPOSITION DEEDS, p. 493.

Conveyance of the whole of a trader's property is not an act of

bankruptcy unless a petition for adjudication is filed within three

months, 493; as to arrangements by deed between a trader and

his creditors, 494, et seq.; the entire estate of the debtor must be

included in the assignment, 497; when an assignment for the

benefit of creditors is revocable, 498; such an assignment cannot

be revoked after creditor's assent, 498; whether an actual assent

for this purpose is necessary, 498.

12.-ON TRUSTEES-THEIR ESTATES, POWERS AND DUTIES,

p. 507.

Observations on the estates, powers and duties of trustees, 507; sales

by trustees, 507; purchasers, how far affected by trustees' omis-

sions, 507; operation of powers of sale to trustees, 508; trusts

for sale follow the estate, 508; devisee of surviving trustee,

508; trustees may sell to the tenant for life whose consent is

required, 509; powers of sale and exchange affected by charges

on the estate of the tenant for life, 509; what a power of sale

authorizes, 509; investments cannot be changed without autho-

rity, 510; a trust to invest implies power to give discharges,

510; the difference between trustees being authorized or required

to invest, &c., with consent, 511; duty of trustees as to money

requiring to be invested, 511; right to the possession of title.

deeds, 511; disclaimer, 512; deed of disclaimer useful as evi-

dence, 512; as to appointments of trustees under a power, 513;

as to applications to the Court for the appointment of new trus-

tees, 514; when trustee appointed by Court cannot exercise

powers given to original trustees, 515; as to presumption of

reconveyance, 516; what estate trustees take under testamentary

gift, 516; limitations to trustees in a deed construed strictly,

517; power to give discharges, 518; trust for payment of debts