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Excerpt from The American Law of Real Property In presenting to the profession a new work on the Amer ican Law of Real Property, the author does not deem an apology necessary, although it may be appropriate to state briefly his object and. The scope of the work. The experi ence of the author, both as a student and as an instructor in this branch of the law, has led him to believe that students of the law generally look upon the law of Real Property as extremely technical, arbitrary and unreasonable. Believ ing that all law is founded upon reason, and is developed by forces, which are not produced or even controlled by the arbitrary will of the legislator, and feeling confident that a logical or historical reason could be found for every principle of the law of Real Property, the author has made that subject the object of his special study, and this volume is given to the profession as the result of his investigations, with the hope that it might aid in stripping this branch of the law of its harsh and uninviting dress. In one sense, this book cannot be considered exhaustive, for volumes can be written on the subject without exhaust ing it. But it is thought that, in another sense, the book may be considered as reasonably exhaustive, in that it con tains the enunciation of all those principles which are neces sary to a broad and comprehensive knowledge of the subject. Instead of filling these pages with numerous citations of the facts of particular cases, and leaving to the student the discovery of the general principles, which underlie the cases. 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.