A

TREATISE

ON

CONVEYANCING,

&c.

A

TREATISE

ON

CONVEYANCING,

&c.

BEING VOL. III.

CONTAINING

AN ESSAY

ON

THE QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF ESTATES,

WITH

MORE IMMEDIATE REFERENCE

TO

The Law of Merger.

BY RICHARD PRESTON,

Of the Inner Temple, Esq.

Author of the ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE QUANTITY OF ESTATES, &c. &c.

In primisque hominis est propria veri inquisitio atque investigatio.
Cic. de off. 1. 1. 4---15.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR W. CLARKE AND SONS, LAW BOOKSELLERS,

PORTUGAL STREET, LINCOLN'S INN.

W. Flint, St. Sepulchre, London.

THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED

TO THE

RT. HON. SIR VICARY GIBBS,

THE

Chief Justice

OF

His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, &c. &c.

AS

A TRIBUTE OF SINCERE RESPECT

FOR

THOSE TALENTS, AND THAT PROFOUND KNOWLEDGE

OF

THE LA W,

FOR WHICH

HE IS SO EMINENTLY DISTINGUISHED.

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