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A NEW EDITION, BEING THE SIXTH, REVISED AND CDRRECTED;

WITH THE ADDITION OF

ORIGINAL PRECEDENTS, NOTES, REFERENCES, &c.

BY JOHN JOSEPH POWELL,

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQ. BARRISTER AT LAW.

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Printed by William Porter,

FOR E. LYNCH, G. BURNET, P. WOGAN, J. EXSHAW,

P. BYRNE,

A. GRUEBER, W. SLEATER, W. M'KENZIE, J. MOORE, J. JONES,
W. JONES, J. RICE, H. WATTS, AND P. MOORE.

M.DCC.XCII,

1797

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TO THE READER.

HE general utility of WOOD'S CONVEYANCING, confidered as a voluminous Collection of Precedents, adapted to almost every poffible cafe that can arife in a free and commercial country, in which property of every denomination is in a perpetual state of fluctuation and change, is too obvious to require any other proof than what arifes from its own intrinsic merit. Indeed, if any proof were wanting, that of fo voluminous a work having already gone through Four Editions, added to the loud call that there is at present for the Edition now in the Prefs, would supply it.

But although the practical part of this Work has received general approbation, as furnishing either a precedent fuited to every particular purpose, or information fufficient to enable any perfon, having an ordinary acquaintance with this branch of the Law, to form one with little or no trouble; yet the theoretical part of it has been thought too loose and defultory to afford that ready information, which is the great end to be answered in a Work of this nature. The principal object of the prefent Editor, therefore, has been to obviate this objection, by throwing that part of the Work, fo far as it is retained, into a form that may render its contents of more easy ac cefs to the Reader. With this view it is, that, in the present Edition, the Materials contained in the First and Second Volumes of WOOD, fo far as the fame are immediately relevant to the Practice of Conveyancing, will be felected, and introduced in the form of fhort Elementary Treatifes at the head of each distinct species of Inftrument. By fuch an arrangement, the crude and indigefted Materials contained in the First and Second Volumes, as they now ftand, and which appear in fuch a formidable shape, as would intimidate the most induftrious mind from attempting a perufal of it, may be made of particular ufe to Students who purfue this branch of the Law, and of general advantage to the Profeffion at large.

The confequence of thus reducing the Theoretical Part of the original Work will be, the making confiderable room for the infertion of ufeful Precedents; the object of the Editor being to keep in fight the principal end to be anfwered by this

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kind of collection, Variety and general Utility. In which view none of the original Precedents will be omitted, but fuch as are inadequate to, or improper for, the conveyance of the property intended to be transferred by them.

In the courfe of the Work the Editor means to furnish fuch Notes as may tend to explain and illuftrate both the Theoretical and Practical Parts, by pointing out the general principles upon which they are founded; as without a thorough acquaintance with these principles, no experience in Practice, however extensive, will render a man a fafe and secure Conveyancer.

The New Materials introduced into the Firft and Second Volumes of the prefent Edition, confift of obfervations on the nature, object, and operation of private Acts of Parliament, in which also the manner of foliciting them is pointed out. Obfervations on the nature of Agreements, &c. An Effay on Powers of Appointment; and additional obfervations on Affignments together with many Notes, in which an attempt is made to explain and elucidate the doctrines advanced in the text, by deduction from first principles; and alfo fome new precedents.

To this Volume is likewife prefixed a new Introduction by the Editor, fhewing the origin of the different kinds of estates in things, and attempting to account for the present state of Freehold and Chattel Property.

Each Volume will be preceded by a Table of Contents; and at the end of the Work a copious and methodical Index to the Matter will be given.

Such is the Edition of WooD which the Proprietors now offer the Public, in which no expence will be spared to procure whatever may conduce to render the Work acceptable and ufeful to the Profeffion at large, and in particular to those who purfue this branch of it.

CONTENTS.

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