The Controversy over a Land Registry. 109 



"We get from another author valuable details of the same 

 proposal. In the first place he sets out the ordinary form of 

 the conveyance then in use, with all its unnecessary repetitions 

 and lengthened verbiage. He then produces one complete 

 form of legislation in lieu of the three Acts, in Elizabeth's and 

 Charles the Second's reigns, dealing with the subject ; and, 

 thirdly, he advises the institution of a Public Registry of Deeds 

 and Conveyances on similar lines to those in use in the counties 

 of York and Middlesex.^ 



It is not our purpose to suggest how far such schemes 

 evaded the difficulties which the opponents of registration had 

 raised. Suffice it to say that the remedy, when it appeared, 

 came from another direction altogether, and first attacked 

 what was undoubtedly the origin of the evil by abolishing 

 the practice of feigned recoveries. Since then the legislature 

 has further obviated the necessity for registration, partly by 

 putting obstacles in the way of the consolidation and tacking of 

 mortgages, and partly by altering and simplifying the processes 

 of conveyance. 



' Law Quibbles, or a Treatise of the Evasions, Tricks, Turns, and 

 Quibbles commonly used in the Profession of the Law, etc., etc., together 

 tvith Abstracts of all the late Statutes for an ending of the Laic, etc. etc. • 

 and An Essay on the Amendment and Reduction of the Law of England 

 and a neiv Proposed Act of Parliament for a thorough Regulation of 

 the Practice of the Law, 4th edition, 1736. 



