JOSHUA WILLIAMS, Esq., OF LINCOLN'S INN, ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S COUNSEL, PROFESSOR OF THE LAW OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY TO THE COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION. PREFACE. THESE Lectures are printed nearly verbatim as they were delivered. The Author, however, has not scrupled to add and alter in a few places where amendment seemed desirable. The principal additions are the remarks on quasi estates tail in leaseholds and copyholds for lives at the end of Lectures X. and XI. A few authorities are occasionally given in the notes. The Author has added in Appendix (A.) a few remarks on heriots, and in Appendix (B.) he has given the text of the Act 40 & 41 Vict. c. 33, to amend the law as to contingent remainders, with a few remarks thereon. He has been assisted in preparing these Lectures for the press by his son Mr. T. CYPRIAN WILLIAMS, of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law, to whom also he is indebted for the Index. 3, STONE BUILDINGS, LINCOLN'S INN, 4th February, 1878. |