AN

ESSAY

IN A COURSE OF LECTURES

ON

ABSTRACTS OF TITLE;

TO FACILITATE THE STUDY,

AND THE APPLICATION

OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES,

AND

GENERAL RULES

OF THE

LAWS OF PROPERTY;

STATING IN DETAIL

The Duty of Solicitors in preparing, &c. and of Counsel in
advising, on Abstracts of Title.

BY RICHARD PRESTON, Esq.

BARRISTER AT LAW.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR W. CLARKE AND SONS, LAW BOOKSELLERS,
PORTUGAL STREET, LINCOLN'S-INN.

Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields.

то

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE.

SIR RICHARD RICHARDS,

CHIEF BARON

OF HIS MAJESTY'S COURT OF EXCHEQUER,

THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED;

IN

N grateful remembrance of many instances

of his kind and liberal attention while at the Bar; and as an expression of esteem for that sound knowledge of the Law, and those amiable qualities, which so eminently qualify him for the high situation he fills with such distinguished honour to himself, and utility and advantage to the Public.

TO THE READER.

THE Third Volume of the ESSAY ON ABSTRACTS OF TITLE is now offered to the Public, and the work may be considered as complete.

The original design of conveying information to pupils has never been abandoned: The simplicity of the work, and the facility with which the subjects may be comprehended by young men at their first entrance on their studies, are the principal, indeed the only, value of this work.

This work, like the more useful grammar of any science, is employed on first principles, and their application, rather than on the examination or the discussion of abstruse subjects, or controverted or disputable points. Utility was the object; and if that object be accomplished, the work will answer the purpose for which it was designed.