TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAP. 1. OF A DEED.

1. General observations. Nature of a deed. Competent parties to,

requisites to. Consideration. Where parties are blind or illiterate.

Execution of by attorney. Delivery. Attestation. Attestation

by attorneys. When deed void.

2. Of the different parts of a deed.

3. Observations on the preparation of deeds. Parties. Recitals.

Description of parcels. Duties of purchaser's solicitor.

4. Perusing deeds. Proper covenants in deeds. Recitals in recon-

veyances,

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2. FORMS.

Parties in deeds, 17. Recitals, 18. Considerations, 36. Operative

parts, 37. Parcels, 39. Exceptions, 41. Habendums, 45. Red-

dendums, 47. Uses, 50. Trusts, 54. Powers, 55. Provisoes,

72. Covenants, commencements of, 84. For title in purchase

deeds, 85. In mortgage deeds, 97. In leases, 103. Attestations,

115.

3. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE.

Observations on, 117. Length of, 118. Form of, 120. Lease

and release, 123. Settlement, 124. Will, 126. Codicil, 128.

Court rolls, ib.

4. ACCOUNTS.

Allowance of account, ob-

Undertaking to keep accounts, 131.

servations on, 132.

5. ACTIONS,

Retainer of an attorney to commence an action, 125.

Ditto, to de-

of articles of clerkship, 296. Affidavit of the execution of articles

of clerkship, 298. Observations on articles of clerkship, 299.

Attorney and agent, 300. Attorneys' lien for their costs, ib. Taxa-

tion of attorney's bill, 304. Professional communications, 305.

For securing a sum of money, 318. Ditto by instalments, 319. Con-

dition in a bond to bankers, 320. Mortgage bond, 321. From

purchaser of equity of redemption to indemnify mortgagor, ib.

Annuity bond, 322. Post-obit, 323. Of arbitration, 324. Ob-

servations on arbitration bonds, 327. Bail bond, 328.

18. COGNOVIT.

Cognovit, 332. Ditto in ejectment. Affidavit of the execution of.

19. CONDITIONS OF SALE.

General conditions, 335. Ditto peculiar to leaseholds, 343. To

copyholds, 346. For the sale of timber, 349.

20. CONVEYANCES.

Lease and release, 352. Release from a vendor to a purchaser, 351.

Appointment and release, 356. Feoffment, 358. Deed of gift,

360. Gift of furniture, ib. Grant of a reversion or remainder,

361. Grant of a pew, 362. Bargain and sale, (enrolled,) 364.

An exchange, 365. By mortgagor and mortgagee, 368. By trus-

tees for sale, 369. From devisees in trust and heir-at-law, 370.

From tenant for life to remainder-man, 371. Release from re-

mainder-man to the tenant for life, 372. From a man and his wife

entitled to dower, 373. Conveyance and mortgage in one deed,

374. From a devisee, and the testator's widow, and a legatee of

part of premises on which they had charges, the remainder being a

sufficient security, 377. Surrender by a tenant for life, 380. Con-

veyance by assignees of a bankrupt, 38). Of an equity of redemp-

tion, 382. Disentailing deed, being a grant of a remainder with

the consent of the protector, 384. Covenant to surrender copy-

bolds, 386. Conveyance of leaseholds for lives, 388.

21. OBSERVATIONS ON PURCHASE DEEDS, 389.

22. DECLARATION OF TRUST.

By a person in whose name an estate was purchased, 392. By mort-

gagee, where the mortgage was made to one, but the money advanced

by several persons, 393. By trustees advancing trust money on

mortgage, 395. As to money secured by bond, 396.

23. DISTRESS FOR RENT.

Warrant to distrain. Inventory of goods distrained. Notices of dis-

tress. Appraiser's oath. Form of appraisement. Instructions for

making distress. Observations on distress for rent, 398.402.

24. LEASES.

Of a house, 403. Under-lease of a house in London with fixtures,

407. Of premises in mortgage, 411. A concise form of a lease of

a farm and lands, 415. A short lease of a piece of land from hus-

band and wife, (the property of the wife,) 419. Short form of a

lease of a house, 421. Conditions for the lease of a farm, ib.

Observations on leases, 428.

25. MORTGAGES.

Mortgage in fee, 433. Of copyholds, 434. A concise mortgage with

trusts for sale, 435. Assignment of a mortgage by the mortgagor

and mortgagee, where a further sum is advanced, 437. Ditto, where

no further sum is advanced, and the mortgagor is not a party, 439.

Conversion of a mortgage for a term into a mortgage in fee, on a

transfer, the term being assigned to attend the inheritance, 441.

Of leaseholds for years, 443. Further charge, 445. Mortgage by

a tenant in tail, with the consent of the protector, 446. By trustees

of a term, with the concurrence of the tenant for life, 448. "By ap-

pointment, 449. A short form of a mortgage with trusts for
sale, where the money is advanced for a limited time by two persons,

451. On personalty, 454. Further charge, on premises mortgaged

by appointment, 455. Observations on mortgages, 456.

26. NOTARIAL FORMS.

Certificates, 467. Letters of attorney, 471. Protests, 475. Shipping

forms, 494. Charter-party. Conditions of a bottomry bond. Of a

respondentia bond. Absolute bill of sale of a ship. Certificate of

British registry, 505. Observations on the office of a notary-public,

508.

27. NOTICES.

In case of partnership, 513. To executors of assignment of a legacy,

514. Purchaser to vendor, that his money is producing no interest.

To a mortgagee, by the purchaser of an equity of redemption. As to

mortgages, 515. Of application to justices to recover possession of

tenement under 1st and 2d Vic., c. 74, 517. Actions, ib. In cases of

landlord and tenant, 518. Poor-rates, 522. As to repair of roads, 524.

28. PARISH PROPERTY.

Proceedings for obtaining the sale of parish property, and forms, 528.

Forms of conditions of sale and conveyances, 539.

29. PARTNERSHIP, 546.

Forms, of agreement by a clerk with his master for carrying on the

business. Between a trader and his retiring partner for the purchase

of the lease of a bouse, stock, &c., 548. Articles of copartnership

between solicitors, 550. Ditto between traders, 554. Applicable

to all partnership articles, 557. Of admission of a partner, 563.

Of dissolution of copartnership, 565. Observations on articles of

partnership, 568.

30. POWERS OF ATTORNEY.

Forms of, 575. To prosecute an action in America. To distrain for

rent, 579. To receive a legacy, 581. To take admittance of copy-
hold lands and to surrender, 582. To receive the distributive share
of an intestate's estate, 584. To demand rent, and on default of
payment to re-enter, 585. To vote in the choice of assignees, ib.

Observations on powers of

Affidavit of the execution of a power.

attorney, 587.

* 31. ON THE PROTECTORATE.

Observations on the title to the office. Table 1, showing the temporary

provisions of the act of the 3d and 4th Will. IV. Table 2, showing

its permanent provisions, 591.

32. RECEIPTS.

Forms of receipts, 597.

33. RECONVEYANCE.

Forms, from mortgagee to mortgagor, 599. From heir-at-law of a

mortgagee, 601. From heir-at-law and executor of the mortgagee
to devisees in trust for sale of the mortgagor, 602. Observations.

34. RELEASES.

General form of release, 609. Forms, of release of claims. Of

legacies charged on lands and surrender of a term, 611. Of a right

of way, 614. From creditors under a composition, 616. From credi-

tors to a bankrupt, he paying a certain sum to the assignees for their

benefit, 618. Of an equity of redemption to the mortgagee by in-

dorsement on the mortgage deed, ib. To an executor and trustee

under a will by the residuary legatee, 620. Observations on releases,

621.

* 35. SETTLEMENTS ON MARRIAGE.

Settlement of reversionary personal estate of the lady, and of a sum of

stock of the gentleman, 628. Conveyance of a small real estate to trus-

tees upon trusts for sale, and to stand possessed of the moneys upon

trusts declared by the settlement, 640. A short settlement of real

estates, 641. Form of trusts in a settlement for gentleman till

bankruptcy or alienation, 643. Trust for renewal of leaseholds, and

the payment of rent and performance of covenants, 644. Observa-

tions on marriage settlements, 646.