Excerpt from A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property, Vol. 1 In the matter of the changes wrought by the legislation of the States, new statutes are so frequent, and often so arbitrary and it is, at times, so difficult to get ready access to them, that, if errors in this respect should be detected, the cause may, per haps, be accepted as an excuse. In collecting and digesting the cases cited from the reports, liberal use, so far as they extend, has been made of the American Reports, a selec tion made by Mr. Isaac Grant Thompson with excellent judg ment and discrimination; while an earnest effort has been made, from other sources, to make the examination and colla tion of these reasonably complete. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.