BEING A SERIES OF ESSAYS ON THE Doctrinal and Practical Points DAILY OCCURRING IN CONVEYANCING. To be published regularly on the SATURDAY in every It will occasionally vary in Size, and the Price NUMBER I. An Introductory Chapter on the Science and LONDON: Printed by W. Stratford, Crown-Court, Temple-Bar; for INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER ON THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE THE OF Conveyancing. HE science of conveyancing comprises the law of real property, and the practice of conveyancing consists in the application of that Law to Practice. A work therefore entitled "The Conveyancer," will necessarily embrace the various points of doctrine and practice occurring in the law of real property, and should be particularly attentive to those which influence the daily practice of the profession. The mode to be adopted in this and the succeeding chapters, will be to lay down the general rules or principles on the subject in question, and the reasons on which they are founded, and then to state the exceptions to these rules, and the reason of such exceptions, and from such several rules, reasons, and exceptions, to define the present operative doctrine on the point: upon this plan therefore the present work will be conducted. The science of conveyancing is the law of real property. This law is founded on various principles, some of an inflexible nature, instituted for the general good of society, and therefore beyond the controul, and paramount to the intention of individuals; and others of a flexible nature, being subservient to the intention, and in short, mere rules of interpreting such in tention, |