OF THE LAW OF PERSONAL PROPERTY, INTENDED FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS IN CONVEYANCING. BY THE LATE JOSHUA WILLIAMS OF LINCOLN'S INN, SOMETIME ONE OF THE CONVEYANCING COUNSEL TO THE COURT OF The Seventeenth Edition BY HIS SON T. CYPRIAN WILLIAMS OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, LL.B.; ONE OF THE CONVEYANCING COUNSEL AUTHOR OF "A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF VENDOR AND PURCHASER," AND EDITOR OF LONDON: SWEET AND MAXWELL, LIMITED, 3, CHANCERY LANE. TORONTO: THE CARSWELL COMPANY, LIMITED, 19, DUNCAN STREET. PREFACE TO THE SEVENTEENTH EDITION. IN this edition the alterations made in the law since the publication of the last edition have been incorporated, and the text has been revised. throughout. The main statutory changes are those made by the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, the Copyright Act, 1911, the Trade Marks Act, 1905, the Companies Acts of 1907 and 1908, the Finance Act of 1910, and the Married Women's Property Act, 1907. The Bankruptcy Act, 1913, was passed too late to allow of its being incorporated in the text, but such of its provisions as affect the subject-matter of the book are noticed in the Addenda. The law as to the liability of chattels to distress has been more fully stated than before (a), and a table of the things privileged from distress added. New paragraphs have been added on the priority of maritime liens as between themselves (b), and as to the seizure in execution and sale of growing crops (c). The law as to the assignment of rights |