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PRACTICAL TREATISE

ON

THE LAW OF PERPETUITY.

843

A

PRACTICAL TREATISE

ON

THE LAW OF PERPETUITY;

OR,

REMOTENESS IN LIMITATIONS OF ESTATES:

AS APPLICABLE TO THE

VARIOUS MODES OF SETTLEMENT

OF

PROPERTY, REAL AND PERSONAL,

AND IN ITS BEARING ON THE

DIFFERENT MODIFICATIONS OF OWNERSHIP

IN SUCH PROPERTY.

BY

WILLIAM DAVID LEWIS,

OF LINCOLN'S INN, ESQ.

Ergo unum debet esse omnibus propositum, ut eadem sit utilitas unius-cujusque et univer-
sorum : quam si ad se quisque rapiat, dissolvetur omnis humana consortio.-Cic. de Offic. lib. iii.

LONDON:

SAUNDERS AND BENNING, LAW BOOKSELLERS,
(SUCCESSORS TO J. BUTTERWORTH AND SON),

43, FLEET STREET.

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THE RIGHT HONORABLE

JOHN SINGLETON, BARON LYNDHURST,

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN,

&c. &c. &c.

MY LORD,

If it be the legitimate and much-esteemed privilege of professional authorship to offer the productions of the pen as an humble tribute of veneration for official rank, how much is the value of this privilege enhanced, when, to the advantages of exalted station, is added the superior lustre of unrivalled genius and learning. Such, my Lord, is the satisfaction I am permitted to enjoy, in prefixing your great name

to this work.

It were idle to attempt the enumeration of your claims upon public respect, since I cannot but remem

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