THE AMERICAN LAW OF REAL PROPERTY.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ENLARGED.

BY FRANCIS HILLIARD,

COUNSELLOR AT LAW.

In two large octavo volumes, beautifully printed, and bound in best law sheep.

This book is designed as a substitute for Cruise's Digest, occupying the same ground in American law which that work has long covered in the English law. It embraces all that portion of the English Law of Real Estate which has any applicability in this country; and at the same time it embodies the statutory provisions and adjudged cases of all the States upon the same subject; thereby constituting a complete elementary treatise for American students and practitioners. The plan of the work is such as to render it equally valuable in all the States, embracing, as it docs, the peculiar modifications of the law alike in Massachusetts and Missouri, New Yoke and Mississippi. In this edition, the statutes and decisions subsequent to the former one, which are very numerous, have all been incorporated, thus making it one-third larger than the original work, and bringing the view of the law upon the subject treated quite down to the present time. The book is recommended in the highest terms by distinguished jurists of different States, as will be seen by the subjoined extracts.

"The work before us supplies this deficiency in a highly satisfactory manner. It is beyond all question the best work of the kind that we now have, and although we doubt whether this or any other work will be likely to supplant Cruise's Digest, we do not hesitate to say, that of the two, this is the more valuable to the American lawyer. We congratulate the author upon the success-f'il accomplishment of the arduous task he undertook, in reducing the vast body of the American Law of Real Property to ' portable size. and we do not doubt that his labours will be duly appreciated by the profession." - Law Reporter, Aug., 1816.

Judge Story says: - " I think the work a very valuable addition to our present stock of juridical literature. It embraces all that part of Mr. Cruise's Digest which is most useful to American lawyers. But its higher value is, that it presents in a concise, but oiear and exact form, the substance of American Law on the same subject, I know no work that tee possess, whose practical utility is Wikely to be so extensively felt" "The wonder is, that the author has been able to bring so gres. a mass into so condensed a text, at once comprehensive and lucid".

Chancellor Kent says of the work (Commentaries, vol ii., p. 635, note, 5th edition): - " It is a work of great labour and intrinsic value".

Hon. Rufus Choate savs: - "Mr. Hilliard's work has been for three or four years in use, and 1 think that Mr. Justice Story and Chancellor Kent express the general opinion of the Massachuretta Bar".

Professor Greenleaf says: - "I had already found the first edition a very convenient book of reference, and do not doubt, from the appearance of the second, that it is greatly improved".

Professor J. H Townsend, of Yale College. says: -

"I have been acquainted for several years with the first edition of Mr Milliard's Trea'ise, and have formed:i very favourable opinion of it. I have no doubt the I Quoad editioa will be found even more valuable than the firs! nd it as I may have opportunity. I know Real Estate, so cmpretieiisive and so weit adapted to the state of the.