Excerpt from A Treatise on the American Law, Vol. 1: Real Property To those who have had occasion to observe the rapidity with which the law of a new country grows, there will be little occasion for explanation or apology, that a third edition of a treatise upon the American Law of Real Property assumes the proportions in which this work now appears. At least two hundred volumes have been examined with a good degree of diligence, in the preparation of the edition now offered to the profession, with a view to its reasonable completeness up to the present time. The results of this have been embodied into the work in as compact a form as could be done without disturbing the orderly symmetry of its arrangement. The entire subject of Homestead Rights is now treated of for the first time, and has been called for by the wide extent to which it has given rise to legislation and judicial construction in our country. Though hardly known when the first edition was published, it now occupies an important place in the local jurisprudence of many of the States. The principal additions which have been made in the present edition, are chiefly to be found in what relates to Estates for Years, and at Will, &c., to Mortgages, and to the Acquisition and Transfer of Estates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.