BY THE SAME AUTHORS. Second Edition. Demy 8vo. 1899. Cloth, 12s. 6d. INVESTIGATION OF TITLE: BEING A Practical Treatise and Alphabetical Digest of the Law connected with the Title to Land; with Precedents of Requisitions. STEVENS AND SONS, Ltd., 119 & 120, CHANCERY LANE, W.C. OF PURCHASE AND MORTGAGE DEEDS: BEING A COMPANION VOLUME TO "JACKSON & GOSSET ON INVESTIGATION OF TITLE.” BY W. HOWLAND JACKSON, Of Lincoln's Inn, AND THOROLD GOSSET, B.A., LL.M., Of the Inner Temple, LONDON: STEVENS AND SONS, LIMITED, 119 & 120, CHANCERY LANE, PREFACE. IF If any apology is necessary for offering a new book of Conveyancing Precedents the following will, it is hoped, be deemed sufficient. The first edition of the Writers' work on Title having sold out in less than a year seems to show that a demand exists for books the use of which saves time and labour in Conveyancing; the object of this volume is to effect such saving in the drafting of Purchase and Mortgage Deeds as the other does in the Investigation of Title. The main features of the collection of Precedents offered are: 1. It embraces (with a few exceptions, e. g., conveyances by personal representatives under the Land Transfer Act 1897, and reconveyances) only those forms which are used after an investigation of title, consequently a volume of moderate dimensions is sufficient to include a great variety of cases likely to be met with in general practice. 2. Almost every one of the sixty-nine Precedents is complete in itself, thus obviating reference while drafting to other parts of the book, and enabling a clerk with few instructions beyond which Precedent to use, and what names and parcels to introduce, to prepare a draft ready for settlement by his principal. 3. Numbers are placed in the margin opposite each clause to enable instructions to be shortly given as to their inclusion or omission. 4. Where necessary, practical directions as to drawing are clearly stated; other notes being concisely made at the foot of each page by reference to the pages in the Second Edition of the Authors' book on Title in which the matter noted is discussed. 5. Tabular statements are given in Appendix A, showing at a glance what statutory provisions are imported into Purchase and Mortgage Deeds respectively, and stating concisely in what cases and to what extent such provisions should be relied upon. 21, OLD SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN, November, 1899. W. H. J. T. G. |