of fresh matter, particularly with regard to company securities. The scope and method of arrangement of the present Treatise differ entirely from those of Mr. Coote's Work. The subject-matter of this Treatise is confined to mortgages and other securities arising directly out of contracts for securing loans and debts, and excludes from consideration, except incidentally, all charges arising only by operation of law, such as judgments, lis pendens, statutory charges, and liens arising otherwise than by way of contract-security, also charges created by will for securing payment of debts and legacies, and the like. In arranging the subject-matter of this important and complicated branch of the law, I have endeavoured to treat it consecutively from the inception of a mortgage or charge to its final discharge or extinction. This Treatise is divided into nine Parts. The first eight Parts deal successively with mortgages and charges of the nature of a mortgage, and are arranged as follows: Part I. Of different kinds of mortgages, and of instruments and matters ancillary thereto. Part II. Of the subject-matter of mortgages. Part III. As to who may be mortgagors and mortgagees, and as to the effect and form of security as affected by the estate, status, and mutual relations of the parties. Part IV. Of void and voidable mortgages. Part V. Of the estate, rights, liabilities, and remedies of the mortgagor and persons claiming under him. Part VI. Of the estate, rights, liabilities, and remedies of the mortgagee and persons claiming under him. Part VII. Of priority of mortgages. Part VIII. Of the discharge of mortgages. In Part IX. is contained a statement of the law as to pledges and hypothecations by way of equitable assign ment. An Appendix on Stamp Duties will be found at the end of the Work. I have attempted, as far as possible, to confine the several chapters and sections arranged under the above Parts to the matters indicated by their respective titles. All of them are broken up into divisions with appropriate headings printed in distinctive type, such headings being in substance repeated at the top of every alternate page, with a view of facilitating rapidity of reference. In the notes to the text, only one reference is given to each case; but I have collected in the Table of Cases references to contemporaneous reports. The statutes and decisions cited in the body of the Treatise are noted up to July, 1897; later references will be found in the "ADDENDA," page ccxxv. Considerable time and labour has been expended on the Index; and it is hoped that it may prove sufficiently copious and satisfactory in arrangement. My most grateful acknowledgments are due to Mr. FREDERICK TRENTHAM MAW for his help in the looking up and discussing the effect of cases and statutes, for many valuable suggestions, and generally for careful and assiduous assistance throughout the preparation of this Work. I also tender my best thanks to Mr. ARTHUR TURNOUR MURRAY, Mr. H. J. MONGAN, and Mr. HERBERT BROADBENT, all of the Equity Bar, for their assistance in the laborious task of preparing this book for the press. L. G. GORDON ROBBINS. 4, STONE BUILDINGS, LINCOLN'S INN. September, 1897. OF A MORTGAGE OF AN EQUITY OF REDEMPTION. i. Nature and Incidents of a Mortgage of an Equity of Redemption |