End. Laves, statutes, of Leonard SHELFORD'S REAL PROPERTY STATUTES, COMPRISING THE PRINCIPAL STATUTES RELATING TO Real Property PASSED IN THE REIGNS OF KING WILLIAM IV. AND QUEEN VICTORIA; WITH NOTES OF DECIDED CASES. NINTH EDITION, BY THOMAS H. CARSON, OF LINCOLN'S INN, ESQUIRE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW; ASSISTED BY HAROLD B. BOMPAS, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQUIRE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, 4. SWEET AND MAXWELL, LIMITED, 3, CHANCERY LANE, STEVENS AND SONS, LIMITED, 119 & 120, CHANCERY LANE, PREFACE TO THE NINTH EDITION. DURING the long interval which has elapsed since the publication of the Eighth Edition of Shelford's Real Property Statutes, the Decided Cases and the List of Statutes affecting the branches of law treated of in that Edition have alike received considerable additions. Among the new Statutes it is only necessary to mention the provisions for the limitation of actions contained in the Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, and the Trustee Act, 1888; the Married Women's Property Act, 1882; the Land Charges Registration and Searches Act, 1888; the provisions as to vesting orders of trust property and the appointment of new trustees in lunacy, contained in the Lunacy Act, 1890; the Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874; the Conveyancing Acts, 1881, 1882, and 1892, and the Settled Land Acts, 1882 to 1890. If the above new matter was to be included in the present edition without unduly increasing the bulk of the Volume, it was necessary to omit or alter much of the old matter. It was found possible to omit some statutes which had been repealed or become obsolete, e. g., 4 & 5 Will. IV. c. 22; 4 & 5 Will. IV. c. 29, and 4 & 5 Vict. c. 21. It was also possible to shorten considerably the statement of the older Judgment Acts; in particular, 2 & 3 Vict. c. 11, 3 & 4 Vict. |