A Treatise on the Law of Deeds; Their Form, Requisites, Execution, Acknowledgement, Registration, Construction, and Effect, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Feom the earliest times, the law of the alienation of real property by voluntary transfer has formed, in every country, an important branch of jurisprudence. At the present day the mode of alienation has been much simplified, but, universally, a deed is required for the conveyance of real estate. In works on real property the subject of deeds is only incidentally considered, such works being necessarily general in their character. Sir Edward Sugden, in England, and others in our own country, have rendered the profession valuable aid by the preparation of treatises devoted to the contract of sale, the law of vendor arid purchaser. I have taken up for consideration the deed itself, by which the title in fee is conveyed. Only in an incidental way have I adverted to the law of vendor and purchaser. A glance at the table of eases will show how frequently questions relating to deeds have come before the courts, and, it is believed, that a treatise devoted exclusively to this subject, will be gladly welcomed by the profession, although some of its parts are considered in other books. It was not my original intention to treat of anything but the law governing the voluntary alienation of real property. I concluded, however, that the value of the treatise would be enhanced by the addition of chapters on tax deeds and deeds of sheriffs and constables, and have added chapters treating of these subjects, so far as they cau be said to be a part of the law of deeds. I believe that a law book, to be adapted to practical use, ought to be written with several different objects in view. It ought, in the first place, to be htreatise, in the strict sense of the word, in which legal principles are announced and explained.
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