Excerpt from Our Land Laws, as They Are: A Handbook for Landowners, Candidates and Electrors At a time when further Reform of our Laud Laws forms part of the professed programme of both political parties, it may be that landowners, land-reformers and other thoughtful laymen will not deem useless or unwelcome an attempt to explain, in clear and simple language, the main principles of the system of laws to which their attention is ever more and more directed. Much of the information contained in the following pages is necessarily drawn - consciously or unconsciously - from the standard text-books which are as familiar to lawyers as they are unknown to laymen; and my indebtedness to the authors and editors of those works is great. The mode in which the information is presented to the reader is my own. For such errors as my work may contain, I must crave the indulgence of those who may detect them. To those among my personal friends - both at the Bar and outside the ranks of the profession - whose ready help and valuable suggestions have been of service to me, I take this opportunity of tendering my thanks. 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.