BEING

A SERIES OF ESSAYS

ON THE

Doctrinal and Practical Points

DAILY OCCURRING IN

CONVEYANCING.

To be published regularly on the SATURDAY in every
Week, and possibly occasionally on WEDNESDAYS
when the Subject requires it, or the Editor's
Leisure permits.

It will occasionally vary in Size, and the Price
be regulated by the Size.

NUMBER I.

An Introductory Chapter on the Science and
Practice of Conveyancing, explaining the
Objects of this Work.

LONDON:

Printed by W. Stratford, Crown-Court, Temple-Bar; for
R. BICKERSTAFF,

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER

ON THE

SCIENCE AND PRACTICE

THE

OF

Conveyancing.

HE science of conveyancing comprises the law of real property, and the practice of conveyancing consists in the application of that Law to Practice. A work therefore entitled "The Conveyancer," will necessarily embrace the various points of doctrine and practice occurring in the law of real property, and should be particularly attentive to those which influence the daily practice of the profession. The mode to be adopted in

this and the succeeding chapters, will be

to lay down the general rules or principles on the subject in question, and the reasons on which they are founded, and then to state the exceptions to these rules, and the reason of such exceptions, and from such several rules, reasons, and exceptions, to define the present operative doctrine on the point: upon this plan therefore the present work will be conducted.

The science of conveyancing is the law of real property. This law is founded on various principles, some of an inflexible nature, instituted for the general good of society, and therefore beyond the controul, and paramount to the intention of individuals; and others of a flexible nature, being subservient to the intention, and in short, mere rules of interpreting such in

tention,