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Excerpt from A Treatise on Deeds As appears from the title page, the present work is founded upon the book published in 1885 by Sir Howard Elphinstone, Mr. Clark, and myself. When a new edition of that work was needed Mr. Clark had been appointed to his present position of Legal Adviser to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and Sir Howard Elphinstone, who was fully engaged in bringing out some of his many works on Conveyancing, asked me to prepare the new edition. As soon as I took the old book in hand I found that it required more than merely re-editing, and I set about reconstructing the entire work. The greater part of the book has been entirely rewritten, all the authorities have been rearranged, and a large amount of additional matter has been incorporated; in fact, so extensive has been the reconstruction that Sir Howard Elphinstone very generously suggested (and Mr. Clark as generously con curred in the suggestion) that the revised book should appear under my name alone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.