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THE
LAW OF REAL PROPERTY:
&c.
CHIEFLY IN RELATION TO CONVEYANCING.
BY
HENRY W. CHALLIS, M.A.
OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.
LONDON:
REEVES AND TURNER, 100, CHANCERY LANE, Law Booksellers and Publishers.
PRINTED BY C. F. ROWORTH, 5-11, GREAT NEW STREET, FETTER LANE.
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PREFACE.
In its earliest shape this work was prefixed to a work
on the Conveyancing and Settled Land Acts, published
by the Author in conjunction with his friend Mr. HENRY
J. HOOD. Though it has been so greatly enlarged that
it might almost seem to be a new work, its original
plan has been retained; and much of the matter con-
tained in the newly-added chapters, is an expanded and
completed version of detached remarks upon the same
subjects contained in the last edition. The following
chapters are entirely novel :-Chapter XI. on the Rules
of Limitation at Common Law; Chapter XIII. on the
Rule in Shelley's Case; Chapter XVI. on the Descent of
a Fee Simple; and Chapter XXV. on Concurrent
Ownership.
The Author is indebted to his friend Mr. W. R.
SHELDON, of Lincoln's Inn, for the General Index at
the end of the work.
A good many additional references, chiefly to the
serial reports, will be found in the Table of Cases.
The new series of the Law Journal Reports and Law
Times Reports are cited without any addition. The
new series of the Jurist is indicated by the addition
of "N. S."