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LAW BOOKS. 



HILLIARD ON REAL ESTATE. 



NOW READY. 



THE AlWTERICAN LAI^ OP REAL PROPERTY. 



SECOND EDITION, REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ENLARGED. 



BY FRANCIS HILLIARD, 



COUNSELLOR AT LAW. 



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



This book is designed as a substitute for Cruise s Digest, occupying the 

 bame ground in American law which that work has long covered in the 

 hngiish law. It embraces all that portion of the English Law of Real 

 Estlite 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 elementarv 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 does, the pecu- 

 liar modifications of the law alike in Massachusetts and MissorKi, New 

 York and Mississiffi. In this edition, the statutes and decisions subse- 

 quent to the former one, which are very numerous, have all been incorpo- 

 rated, 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 jtirists of 

 different Stales, 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 hare, 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 Amencan lawyer. We congratulate the author upon the success- 

 ftil accomplishment of the arduous task he undertook, in reducing the vast body of the Amencan 

 Law of Real Property to ' portable size.' and we do not doubt that his labours will be duly appre- 

 ciated by the profession." — Laa Reprnler, Aug., IStS. 



Judge Story sa>-s :— " I think the work a very valuable addition to our present stock of juridical 

 Utcrature. It embraces all that part of Mr. Cruise's Digest which is most useful to Amencan law- 

 yers. But its hieher value is, that it presents in a concise, but dear and exact form, the substanca 

 of .American Law on the same subject, i know no work that ice possess, whose practical uttjitf is 

 Wielf to be so extensirelr feU." " The wonder is, that the author has been able to bring so gret a 

 mass into so condensed a text, at once comprehensive and lucid." 



Chancellor Kent saj-s of the work (Commentaries, vol ii, pt 635, note, 5th edition) :— " It is a work 

 of great labour and intnnsic value." 



Hon. Rufus Choate savs :— " Mr. Hilliani'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 Massachuretti 

 Bar." 



Professor Grecnleaf says :— " 1 had already found the first edition a very convenient book of refe- 

 rence, and do not doubt, from the appearance of the second, that it is greatly improved." 



Professor J. H Towiusi^ml. of Vale College, says :— 



'• I Iravi- ticrn acquainted for several years with the first edition of Mr. Hilliard's Treatise, and 

 have formed a very favoarahle opmion »f it 1 have nodi»il>t the second e<li!ion will be found even 

 more valuable than the first. and I shaU he hr.pp>- In rpcmmend it as I may h-n-e opportunity. I 

 know of ii.i other work on the sn'tiecl of Real Estate, so c .raprebeiisive and so wcil adapted to lh« 

 (tale of ikc I:i« ill tlll■^ i->iuutrj-." 



