TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAP. 1. of a DEED.

1. General observations.

Nature of a deed. Competent parties to,

requisites to. Consideration. Where parties are blind or illiterate.

Execution of by attorney. Delivery. Attestation. Attestation

by attorneys. When deed void.

2. Of the different parts of a deed.

3. Observations on the preparation of deeds. Parties.

Description of parcels. Duties of purchaser's solicitor.

Recitals.

4. Perusing deeds. Proper covenants in deeds. Recitals in recon-

veyances,

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2. FORMS.

Parties in deeds, 17. Recitals, 18. Considerations, 36. Operative
parts, 37. Parcels, 39. Exceptions, 41. Habendums, 45. Red-
dendums, 47. Uses, 50. Trusts, 54. Powers, 55. Provisoes,
72. Covenants, commencements of, 84. For title in purchase
deeds, 85.
In mortgage deeds, 97. In leases, 103.

115.

Attestations,

3. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE.

Observations on, 117. Length of, 118. Form of, 120. Lease

and release, 123.

Court rolls, ib.

Settlement, 124. Will, 126. Codicil, 128.

4. ACCOUNTS.

Undertaking to keep accounts, 131. Allowance of account, ob-
servations on, 132.

5. ACTIONS.

Retainer of an attorney to commence an action, 125. Ditto, to de-

fend.

Observation on retainers. Demand of perusal, and copy of

a warrant from a constable. Ditto from a gaolor. Undertaking

to pay an attorney's bill. Statute of frauds. Lord Tenterden's

act.

6. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.

Apportionment of rents, 4th Will. IV., cap. 22, 141. Dealings with

bankrupts, 2d and 3d Vic. c. 29, 142. Boundaries of church pro-

perty, 2d and 3d Will. IV., c. 80, ib. Payment of debts out of real

estates, 11th Geo. IV., and 1st Will. IV., c. 47, 143. Charge of

simple contract debts on real estate, 3d and 4th Will. IV., c. 104, 144.

Imprisonment for debt, 1st and 2d Vic., c. 110, 145. Dower, 3d

and 4th Will. IV., c. 95, 150. Fines and recoveries, 3d and 4th

Will. IV., c. 74, ib. Custody of infants, 2d and 3d Vic., c. 54,

166. Inheritance, 3d and 4th Will. IV., c. 106, 167. Protection

against judgments, 2 Vic., c. 11, 168. Limitation of actions and

suits, 3d and 4th Will. IV., c. 27, 169. Recovery of possession of

tenements, 1st and 2d Vic., c. 74, 175. Prescription, 2d and 3d

Will. IV., c. 71. Tithes, 2d and 3d Will. IV., c. 100, 179. Wills,

1st Vic., c. 26, 180.

7. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF DEEDS BY MARRIED

WOMEN.

Memorandum of acknowledgment, 186. Certificate thereof. Affi-
davit verifying the same.

8. AGREEMENTS.

Ditto for leases, 215.

For the purchase

Observations on agreements for purchase, 202.

Forms, of an agreement for an exchange, 190.

of a freehold estate, 193. Ditto of a copyhold, 195. Ditto of

leasehold premises, 196. Ditto with immediate possession, and with

a stipulation as to fixtures, 198. Variations adapted to purchase

agreements, 200. For the lease of a house, 206. For letting lodgings,

209. For letting a farm, ib. For underletting premises, 211. For

lease of a house, (under conditions of sale,) 214. For building a

house, 217. To let a field for building, 218. Between a master

and his clerk, 220. Between a master and a menial servant, 222.

To procure the execution of deeds, 223. To execute an assign-

ment as a collateral security, 224. To bear equal shares in a law

suit, 225. For compromising a law suit, and relinquishing a claim

to estates, 226. For a reference, 227. To refer a cause in chan-

cery to arbitration, 228.

9. ANSWERS IN CHANCERY.

Instructions for. Mode of taking. Form of oath, 230.

10. APPOINTMENTS.

By a feme covert of stock in the funds, 234. Of a guardian by an

infant, 236. Ditto of person and estate with power to lease, 237.

Forms, of a term to attend inheritance, 253. Ditto by indorsement on

a purchase of the inheritance by the owner of a term, 255.
Of

several terms, ib. Observations on deeds of assignment of attend-

ant terms, 257. Merger of terms, 258. Of leaseholds for years,

Observations on assignment of leaseholds,

260.

262.

Variations, 261.

Of a debt, ib. Of a bond, 266. Of a bond and warrant

of attorney, 268. Of a debt due on judgment, 269. Of a bond

and judgment, 270. Of a mortgage bond by indorsement, 271. Of

dividends under a fiat of bankruptcy, 272. To secure costs to an

attorney, 273. Of stock in the funds, (bequeathed under a will,)

276. Of a legacy, 280. Of a deed of covenant, 281. Of a policy

of insurance upon a life, 282. Ditto against fire, 283. Observa-

tions on assignments of choses in actions, 284.

13. ATTORNMENT.

Notice from assignees of a bankrupt to tenant to attorn to a purchaser

with a schedule. Forms of attornment, 291.

14. ATTORNEYS.

Articles of clerkship to an attorney and solicitor, 293. Assignment

of articles of clerkship, 296.

Affidavit of the execution of articles

of clerkship, 298. Observations on articles of clerkship, 299.

Attorney and agent, 300. Attorneys' lien for their costs, ib. Taxa-

tion of attorney's bill, 304. Professional communications, 305.

15. AWARDS.

An award by arbitration, 311. Ditto by an umpire, 313. Observa-

tions on awards, 314.

16. BILLS OF SALE.

Bill of sale of goods, 316. Note on retaining possession of the

goods.

17. BONDS.

For securing a sum of money, 318. Ditto by instalments, 319. Con-

dition in a bond to bankers, 320. Mortgage bond, 321. From

purchaser of equity of redemption to indemnify mortgagor, ib.

Annuity bond, 322. Post-obit, 323. Of arbitration, 324. Ob-

servations on arbitration bonds, 327. Bail bond, 328.

Cognovit, 332.

18. COGNOVIT.

Ditto in ejectment. Affidavit of the execution of.

19. CONDITIONS OF SALE.

General conditions, 335. Ditto peculiar to leaseholds, 343. Το

copyholds, 346. For the sale of timber, 349.

20. CONVEYANCES.

Lease and release, 352. Release from a vendor to a purchaser, 354.

Appointment and release, 356. Feoffment, 358. Deed of gift,

360. Gift of furniture, ib. Grant of a reversion or remainder,

361. Grant of a pew, 362. Bargain and sale, (enrolled,) 364.

An exchange, 365. By mortgagor and mortgagee, 368. By trus-

tees for sale, 369. From devisees in trust and heir-at-law, 370.

From tenant for life to remainder-man, 371. Release from re-

mainder-man to the tenant for life, 372. From a man and his wife

entitled to dower, 373. Conveyance and

mortgage in one deed,

374.

From a devisee, and the testator's widow, and a legatee of

part of premises on which they had charges, the remainder being a

sufficient security, 377. Surrender by a tenant for life, 380. Con-

veyance by assignees of a bankrupt, 381. Of an equity of redemp-

tion, 382. Disentailing deed, being a grant of a remainder with

the consent of the protector, 384. Covenant to surrender copy-

holds, 386. Conveyance of leaseholds for lives, 388.

21. OBSERVATIONS ON PURCHASE DEEDS, 389.

22. DECLARATION OF TRUST.

By a person in whose name an estate was purchased, 392. By mort-

gagee, where the mortgage was made to one, but the money advanced

by several persons, 393. By trustees advancing trust money on

mortgage, 395. As to money secured by bond, 396.

making distress. Observations on distress for rent, 398-402.

24. LEASES.

Of a house, 403. Under-lease of a house in London with fixtures,

407. Of premises in mortgage, 411. A concise form of a lease of

a farm and lands, 415. A short lease of a piece of land from hus-

band and wife, (the property of the wife,) 419. Short form of a

lease of a house, 421. Conditions for the lease of a farm, ib.

Observations on leases, 428.

25. MORTGAGES.

Mortgage in fee, 433. Of copyholds, 434. A concise mortgage with

trusts for sale, 435. Assignment of a mortgage by the mortgagor

and mortgagee, where a further sum is advanced, 437. Ditto, where

no further sum is advanced, and the mortgagor is not a party, 439.

Conversion of a mortgage for a term into a mortgage in fee, on a

transfer, the term being assigned to attend the inheritance, 44 1.

Of leaseholds for years, 443. Further charge, 445. Mortgage by

a tenant in tail, with the consent of the protector, 446. By trustees

of a term, with the concurrence of the tenant for life, 448. By ap-

pointment, 449. A short form of a mortgage with trusts for