TREATISE ON THE AMERICAN LAW OF REAL PROPER T Y. BY EMORY WASHBURN, LL. D., UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF LAW IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 14635-647 IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME I. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by EMORY WASHBURN, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. JMU CAMBRIDGE: Allen and Farnham, Printers. TO THE HONORABLE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WHOSE LABORS I AM INDEBTED FOR SO MUCH OF WHAT IS VALUABLE IN THE WORK, I DEDICATE THIS UNPRE TENDING EFFORT TO ELUCIDATE A DEPART MENT OF AMERICAN JURISPRUDENCE. In doing this, I desire to add to the traditional veneration for this Court which I have shared in common with the people of the Commonwealth, an expression of personal respect for its members, which the long intercourse into which I have been brought since my admission to its Bar, has served to develop and constantly to strengthen. Within that time every one of its members has been changed. Men, the loved and the honored, have, one after another, passed away in the fulness of their fame, and others are now occupying their field of honorable labor. But illustrious as are the names that stand out upon its records, among the great and good men of the Commonwealth, never have its laws been more ably, faithfully, and acceptably administered than by those who now occupy these seats of justice. To bear my humble tribute to the official and personal qual ities of the men who have, in this field, won and sustained the united respect of an appreciative public, I subscribe myself Their obliged and obedient servant, CAMBRIDGE, July, 1860. |