OCR Text |
Show LEA AND BLANCHARD'S PUBLICATIONS. LAW BOOKS. HILLIARD ON REAL ESTATE. NOW READY. rHE AMERICAN LAW 01' IlEAL PROPERTY. SECOND EDITION, REVISED, C"ORRECTED, AND ENLARGED. B Y F R A N C I S H I L L I A R D, COUNSELLOR AT LAW, In two large octavo volumes, beautifully printed, and bound in best law 1sheep. b.J:~i!r~~0n~ iindA~~ri~a~s J~,~u~~~\~'l:e ~~~~ <:~/j/~a~ifo~s;, ~oC:~ie~ij~ ;~: ~nglish 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 MASSACHUSETTS and MrssoURI, NE\V YoRK and Mrssrssrl'PI. In this edition, the statutes and decisions subsequent to the former one, which are very numerous, have all been incorpo- ~h~e~ie~uof tlt~~! ~p~~et-~~i~~b~~~~e:ret~~d ~:it~r~o~~ :o::~ ;r~~e~ti~~!. 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 Uris deficiency in a hlghly satisfactory manner. It is beyond all question the best work of the kind that we now have, and although we doubt whether thls or any other work will be likely to supplant Cruise's Digest, we do not hesitate to say, that of the two, thls is the more valuable to the American lawyer. We congratulate tbe author upon the successful accomplishment of the arduous task be undertook, in reduciug 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 Reportc, Aug., 1846. Judge Story says :-"1 thlnk the work a very valuable addition to our present stock of juridical literature. It embraces all that part of Mr. Cruise's Digest whlch is most useful to American lawyers. But its higher value is, that it presents in a concise, but olear and exact form, the substance of American Law on the same subject. 1 know no work thal ..., pos...a, w!w&! ;practical utility il li/cdy to be so ezltnsively feU." "The wonder is, that tbe autb.or has been able to bring so gre~ o 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 thlnk that Mr. Justice Story and Chancellor Kent express the general opinion of the MassachW>etta Bar." Professor Greeuleaf says:-" l had Jl)ready found the first edition a very convenient book ofreference, and do not doubt, from the appearnnce of the second, that it is greatly improved." Professor J. H. Townsend, of Yale College, snys :- "I bnve beeo ""!Uainted for several years with the first edit10n of Mr. Hilliard's Treatise, and have formed a very f:wournhle opmion of it. 1 have no lloubt the second edition wiU be found even more valuable than the fi rst, :md J shaU he hn.ppy to recommend it as I may b1.ve OJ>Jl()rtunity. I know of nu other work on llw suhjf'r.L of Real F-stnte, so comprehensive ami so weil adaptell to the ttale of~ ~ ~ luw 111 this 1'1 111nt ry ." |