The Controversy over a [.and 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 remed}'", 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 Quibhles, or a Treatise of the Evasions, Tricks, Turns, and 

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

 with Absfr'acts of all the late Statutes for an ending of the Law, etc., etc. : 

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

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

 the Practice of the Law, 4th edition. ITo*!. 



