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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...the husband of a lady to whom the demised premises, as part of a very large landed estate, had belonged before marriage, and which was settled in strict settlement for the purposes of which a Recovery had been suffered: and the Deed to lead the Uses was sufficiently special and complicated. It became necessary, however, to set it out accurately, and at length, in the Declaration, and in fact, to deduce a good title, through all the intricate machinery of Uses, Trusts, and Powers which had been brought into play; the plaintiff being the devisee - Vol. ii., p. 311 (10th cd.). in fee of the lessor, who, after having granted the lease, had survived his wife--she, on failure of issue, having, pursuant to the power reserved to her, devised the entire property to him, and he ultimately to the plaintiff. Nor is such a case one of infrequent occurrence, as the common-law student will quickly find, on commencing his pupilage.--The conveyancer of the present day must thus, in fact, master two systems of conveyancing--the old one and the new one; and he is, in this respect, much more disadvantageous situated than the common lawyer, with reference to the abolished portion of his branch of the law. The latter will, it is true, have considerable difficulty, on referring to cases decided under a state of pleading and practice now abolished, in comprehending the scope and meaning of the decision, if he be ignorant of the technicalities of the law as it was then administered; but the instruments, and course, of actual litigation are new. With the conveyancer, however, it is otherwise; for almost every instrument brought before him for his opinion as to its precise operation, or requiring to be framed de novo by him, consists, to a large extent, of the abolished portion ...

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