TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A SYSTEMATIC DISSERTATION UPON THE ADMISSIBILITY OF TROUL WRITTEN INSTRUMENTS. BY WILLIAM ROBERTS, Of Lincoln's Inn, Author of a Treatise on Fraudulent Conveyances, &c. SECOND AMERICAN, FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION. WITH REFERENCES TO, AND A DIGEST OF THE AMERICAN DECISIONS, AND THE LATE BY A MEMBER OF THE BAR. HARTFORD : OLIVER D. COOKE & SONS. *****.... A.T R6485 1823 DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, 58. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-seventh day of May, in the fortyL. S. seventh year of the independence of the United States of America, OLIVER D.COOKE & SONS, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "A Treatise on the Statute of Frauds, as it regards declarations in trust, contracts, "surrenders, conveyances, and the execution and proof of wills and codicils, to which is "prefixed a systematic dissertation upon the admissibility of parol and extrinsic evidence, "to explain and controul written instruments. By WILLIAM ROBERTS, of Lincoln's Inn, "author of a Treatise on Fraudulent Conveyances, &c. Second American, from the last "London Edition, with references to, and a digest of the American decisions, and the "late decisions in Great-Britain, arranged under their appropriate heads; and an ap"pendix shewing the extent of the adoption of the statute of 29 Car. ii. c. 3, in the several "states of the union: By a member of the bar." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, “An act for the 66 encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the "authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to an act, entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encourage"ment of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the authors and "proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the "benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." CHARLES A. INGERSOLL, A true copy of Record, examined, and sealed by me, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. TO THE HON. SIR ALLAN CHAMBRE, KNIGHT, ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, &c. SIR, I HAVE ventured to prefix your Name to these sheets, with the hope of attracting your attention to a Work, the fatigue attending the execution whereof will be amply compensated, if it shall be so fortunate as to obtain your approbation. Your permission to do this has not been asked, because I was unwilling to involve the credit of your judgment in the success of my enterprise. But the very nature of my undertaking, naturally reminded me of some professional obligations to you at the commencement of my studies, and I was glad of this opportunity of giving you an appropriate, though, perhaps, unworthy testimony of the sentiments which your kind assistance excited in me. The sort of publication which I have ventured to bring for word, aspires to something above the rank of a mere compilation of cases; and as it is composed with a view to reduce into system and harmony a great variety of interesting topics, at present involved in much apparent contradiction, and inconsistency of doctrine, it is of some importance to the profession, that the credit of such a book should soon be fixed; and who is more able to establish its character, in the opinion of lawyers, than yourself? If I shall have seemed to you to have affected things above my ability, I shall best learn from your authority a lesson of prudent humility, and my misemployed industry will receive 16439 |