E S S. A Y ON THE NATURE AND LAW s O F USES AND TRUSTS. INCLUDINO A TREATISE ON CONVEYANCES AT COMMON LAW; AND THOSE DERIVING THEIR EFFECT FROM THE STATUTE OF USES. BY FRANCIS WILLIAMS SANDERS, Esq. OF LINCOLN's-INN. DUBLIN: PRINTED BY J. JONES, NO. III, GRAFTON-STREET, TO JOHN STANLEY, Efq; ATTORNEY GENERAL OF HIS MAJESTY'S LEEWARD WEST INDIA ISLANDS, IN AMERICA, AND MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR HASTINGS! > SIR, YOUR general and extenfive acquaintanco with the laws of this country, and particularly with that branch of them, to which the following effay more immediately relates, was a fufficient inducement for me to request, that your name might fanction this work. But added to this, as you had the direction of of my professional studies, I thought no perfon fo well entitled to the mark of respect, which is now offered by the firft production of them, as their original promoter. With the highest fenfe of the honour, which you have conferred upon me by this and other teftimonies of your approbation, I remain Your most obedient, Monday, Nov. 14, 1791. 13. Great-fquare, Gray's Inn. and humble Servant, F. W.SANDERS. THE THE HE defign of the enfuing effay is to elucidate and explain the very abftruse branch of our law relating to the nature and doctrines of uses and trufts. In order to accomplish this end, it has been thought proper, befides giving a general knowledge of uses and trusts, to fhew their peculiar operation upon the feveral conveyances now in practice. The author, therefore, has included, in this effay, a treatise upon conveyances at common law, and thofe deriving their effect from the ftatute of uses. "The conveyances by feoffment and grant are particularly felected and explained as to their operation at the common law; thereby making ufes with refpe&t to them a fecondary confideration. As to fines, recoveries, furrenders, &c. their effects at the common law have been already, and at large, treated of by different authors; and they are therefore in this work only introduced occafionally, as ferving to explain fome particular rule relating to ufes. In the execution of this work, and in its reception by the public, the author has every thing to fear from the confcioufnefs of his own inability; but at the fame time he has much to hope from that liberality, which he has already and undefervedly experienced from gentlemen of the profeffio:. As an incitement to the perfecting of this undertaking, he muft here apply to himfelf the words of Lord Bacon, who |