Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Real Property The author was for seventeen years a lecturer upon the law of real property, and for the major part of that time a professor, teaching that subject in the Law School of Boston University. He hopes that this long experience in dealing with that department of law will be a sufficient apology for his offering this book to the public. It will be found that up to the last few chapters the book is climacteric. The effort is made to lead the reader up the steps of a ladder, and cross references are freely made, so that he may collocate in his mind a proposition he has already learned in some previous chapter, with some other proposition in the later chapter, and thus the reader is helped to think of the two propositions together, although they are required to be stated in the order in which they are presented. It is evident from this statement that the book is intended to be useful to students of law who are undertaking the study of real property. But it is hoped that the book will be found useful to the practitioner, and that it may not be unworthy of the attention even of members of the courts. 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.