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HILLIARD ON HEAL ESTATE, 



NOW READY. 



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 does, the peculiar modifications of the law alike in Massa- 

 chusetts and Missouri, New York 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 terras by distinguished jurists of different States, as will be seen by the subjoined 

 extracts. 



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 clear and 

 exact form, the substance of American Law on the same subject. I know no work that we 

 possess, whose practical utility is likely to be so extensively felt." " The wonder is, that the 

 author has been able to bring so great a mass into so condensed a text, at once comprehen- 

 sive and lucid." 



Chancellor Kent says of the work (Commentaries, vol. ii., p. 635, note, 5th edition) : — " It 

 is a work of great labor and intrinsic value." 



Hon. Rufus Choate says : — " Mr. Hilliard's work has been for three or four years in use, 

 and I think that Mr. Justice Story and Chancellor Kent express the general opinion of the 

 Massachusetts 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. Hilliard's Treatise, 

 and have formed a very favorable opinion of it. I have no doubt the second edition will be 

 found even more valuable than the first, and I shall be happy to recommend it as I may have 

 opportunity. I know of no other work on the subject of Real Estate, so comprehensive and 

 so well adapted to the state of the law in this country." 



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 successful 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 labors will be duly appreciated by the profession.— Law> Reporter, Aug., 1846. 



