THE

THEORY AND PRACTICE

OF

CONVEYANCING:

WITH PRECEDENTS;

AN ANALYTICAL TABLE OF REAL PROPERTY;

AND THE

RECENT ACT TO SIMPLIFY THE TRANSFER OF

PROPERTY.

Entended chiefly for the Use of Students.

BY JAMES LORD,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

LONDON:

OWEN RICHARDS,

LAW BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER,
194, FLEET STREET,

DUBLIN, HODGES AND SMITH; EDINBURGH, MACLACHLAN AND

ᏚᎢᎬᎳᎪᎡᎢ,

M DCCC XLIV.

ALEXANDER MACINTOSH,

PRINTER,

GREAT NEW STREET, LONDON.

ΤΟ

SIR FREDERICK THESIGER, M.P.,

HER MAJESTY'S SOLICITOR-GENERAL,

AS A TRIBUTE OF SINCERE RESPECT FOR

THOSE TALENTS,

WHICH HAVE EVER DISTINGUISHED HIM

ALIKE

IN THE SENATE, AND AT THE BAR,

THE FOLLOWING WORK

IS DEDICATED,

WITH HIS PERMISSION,

BY

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

THE following work is intended for the use of students in the commencement of their professional studies.

It has been compiled chiefly from MS. notes and extracts made by the author while studying in a conveyancer's chamber during the years 1833, 1834, and 1835.

The want which he felt in the early period of his legal studies, of some work of an elementary nature-some systematic treatise which, without being too voluminous, might serve as a guide and introduction to the subject of his studies, pointing out with brevity and perspicuity the origin and nature