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- LONDON: SAUNDERS AND BENNING, LAW BOOKSELLERS, 43, FLEET STREET. ΤΟ 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 |