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PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION.

HE Editor has in this edition followed substantially

THE

the same course as in the last one, namely, added to and altered the text to bring it into conformity with the present state of legislation and decision so far as the limits of the work permit. In doing so he has found the requisite changes on the text to be rather more extensive than in the last edition. The chapter on Bills and that on Patents have, in consequence of the recent Acts affecting those subjects, with the exception of a few sections, been entirely rewritten, and somewhat enlarged. On the other hand, the Marriage Notice Act has been given in rather less detail than before; and the subjects of Deathbed, Conquest, and Burgage Tenure, which had ceased to form parts of the law before the date of the last edition, have been eliminated altogether from this one. In view of the great simplification wrought in the law of Entail by the culminating Act of 1882, the Editor has not considered it necessary to retain the chapter on Entail (which consisted, in previous editions, chiefly of an analysis of the Rutherfurd Act) in its former length, but has, with the exception of some introductory sections, inserted instead a new and shortened account of the present state of the law.

The chapter on Bills has had the advantage of revisal by Mr. W. D. Thorburn, Advocate, author of a Commentary on the Bills Act; that on Patents, of Mr.