A compleat body of conveyancing in theory and practice. In three volumes. ... . Contains the theory; wherein the various Ways and Methods of Acquiring, Forfeiting, Conveying, Limiting and Settling all Kinds of Estates, as well Real as Personal; and also the Nature, different Forms, Parts, Operations and Effects of all Kinds of Deeds and Common Assurances, Fines and Recoveries, are fully treated of. Volumes II. III. Contain the practice: Or Precedents of Feoffments, Grants, Bargains and Sale, Leases, Releases, Declarations and Limitations of Uses and Trusts, Marriage-Settlements, and Private Acts of Parliament, (made for Settling the most considerable Estates in Great Britain and Ireland;) Mortgages, Leases, Assignments, Deeds of Charter-Party and Copartnership, Bills, Bonds, Releases, Letters of Attorney, &c. Deeds for securing Annuities, &c. and of Bank, East-India, South-Sea Stocks, and other Publick Funds; and in general all Deeds and Instruments any Ways requisite in Mercantile, Maritime and Plantation Affairs. With Observations and Opinions of the most Eminent Conveyancers. Selected from many Thousand Manuscript Precedents. The Whole digested in a Method intirely new, avoiding all Repetitions, and containing a greater Variety of Useful Precedents than all other Books upon the same Subject now extant. By Edward Wood, Gent. deceased. The fourth edition, greatly improved in the Theory by the Addition of References to the latest Books of Authority; and in the Practical Part, by the Favour of a large Number of Original Manuscript Precedents. By able hands - Wood, Edward conveyancer (printed by his Majesty's law-printers; for J. Beecroft, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, and sons, P. Uriel, W. Owen, B. Law, T. Caslon, S. Crowder, T. Longman, W. Flexney, G. Robinson, T. Lowndes, R. Baldwin, E. Johnston, W. Stuart, W. Brown, R. Critchett, M. Hingeston, W. Fox, E. Brooks, J. Johnson, and J. Knox, 1777)
English Short Title Catalog, T113839
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