Excerpt from The Law of Real Property, Vol. 4: Being a Complete Compendium of Real Estate Law, Embracing All Current Case Law, Carefully Selected, Thoroughly Annotated and Accurately Epitomized In presenting this, the fourth volume of our serial on the Law of Real Property, to the profession, we desire to reaf firm our original purpose to make this entire series, at every stage of its progress, an exceedingly useful help to every busy lawyer and over-worked judge who must daily, in some way, have occasion to examine some of the more than one thousand questions directly connected with the one hundred text book subjects completely covered by this work. Instead of at tempting to rewrite the law, as laid down by the masters whose excellent works have so long been in the hands of the profession, we have contented ourselves with an honest effort to chronicle its growth as afl'ected by our legislative and judicial forces, uncolored by any preconceived opinions of our own. We have not assumed to say that any case, however weak, is of no value; but, in epitomizing the cases upon any given point, while preserving them all, we have, in the ar rangement and space occupied, to a large extent, indicated the character and relative importance of each case, frequently quoting the important language of the opinion and giving the cases cited by the court; and where there is a conflict of au thority both sides are given. We have constantly borne in mind the thought that we could be most helpful to those whom we seek to serve by making the finding of the law as easy as possible. One index issued in a separate volume covers the entire series. In this index we have not attempted to repeat the contents of the four large volumes, but we have tried to make the finding of any portion or their contents the matter of but a moment's work. We realize the responsibility which accompanies the task upon which we are engaged, but our hands have been strengthened for better work and our hearts lightened and warmed by the generous reception given to our work, and the many kind words of commendation, for all of which we again desire to make grateful acknowledgment. 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.