RULE AGAINST PERPETUITIES. BY JOHN CHIPMAN GRAY, ROYALL PROFESSOR OF LAW, EMERITUS, IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY THIRD EDITION. STANFORD LIBRARY BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1915. Copyright, 1886, 1906, 1915, /202820 Printers 8. J. PARKHILL & Co., BOSTON, U.S.A. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. ALTHOUGH only eight years have passed since the publication of the second edition, about three hundred and eighty new cases on the Rule against Perpetuities (not including those in New York) have been decided during that time, many of them of considerable interest; and my views have altered or developed on several points. Nothwithstanding an increase in the average contents of a page, there has been a material addition to the number of pages of the text and of the Appendix. If this had been the first edition of this work, I should undoubtedly have adopted a more consecutive and compact arrangement in several respects than it now exhibits. It has seemed to me, however, to be advantageous to the reader to retain in the present edition a form which shows the development not only of the law but of the author's views during a period of twenty-eight years. I have to thank my learned friend, William Rodman Fay, Esquire, of the Boston bar, for verifying the citations of authorities and seeing the book through the press, and my son Roland Gray for assistance in revising the text. BOSTON, July, 1914. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. DURING the twenty years that have elapsed since the publication of the first edition, many important cases on the Rule against Perpetuities have been decided. About a hundred pages have been added to the text and fifty to the Appendix. I have to give my best thanks to my learned friends Charles L. Barlow, Esquire, and John G. Palfrey, Esquire, of the Boston bar, the former for verifying the citations of authorities, the latter for seeing the book through the press. BOSTON, January, 1906. |