REPORTS of Cafes argued and adjudged in the Courts CASES in PARLIAMENT refolved and adjudged, upon REPORTS of Cafes determined in the High Court of REPORTS of Cafes determined in the Court of King's The STATUTE-LAW COMMON-PLAC'D; or a gene- An ABRIDGMENT of the firft Part of my Lord CONVEYANCER. CONTAINING The Nature and Kinds of Deeds and AND An Abridgment of the LAW relating to AND ALSO All Manner of PRECEDENTS made Ufe of in The Second Edition, corrected; with Additions. By GILES JACOB, Gent. In Three VOLUMES. In the SAVOY: Printed by HENRY LINTOT, LAW-Printer to the KING'S V THE PREFACE A S Conveyancing bath always been efteemed one of the most confiderable Branches of the Law, our Ffates and Fortunes being thereby fecured to us and our Pofterity in the fureft Manner; to publish a compleat Work of the beft Precedents and Inftructions, in the whole Courfe of that Bufinefs, is a great and neceffary Undertaking, worthy to be attempted. T This Confideration, (with the good Raception my Court-Keeper bas met with) keightned my Ambition to be concerned in fo ufeful and beneficial a Performance, wherein I bave endeavoured to Jet all Obfcurities in a clear Light, and made use of such Methods and Inftruments to accomplish the fame, as will render it a Directory to all, even in the most difficult Matters, fo as to draw any Deed or Conveyance in the most effectual Manner. You'll You'll fee thefe Volumes are not filled up with obfolete and antiquated Precedents, and any, whether good or bad, to add to their Bulk, as too commonly Books of this Nature are; But the Precedents herein, you will find conformable to the modern Practice, and agreeable to the beft Methods of Prac tice now in Ule; which hath been fuffis cient to recommend them, fince I have this Opportunity of Sending a further Edition of them into the World. This firft Volume, you may observe,-contains an Abridgment of the Law relating to Conveyancing, and all Deeds in general, with every Thing incident to them, which I have briefly collected from all the Books of any Signification extant on that Head, and which may ferve as a fufficient Inftruction concerning the Legality of Deeds And alfo all Manner of the fmaller Kinds of Precedents, concluding with Settlements of Perfonal Eftates, Annuities, Money in Funds, &c. But neither thefe Precedents, nor thofe contained in my two laft Volumes of this Work, are fuch as you meet with in the Works of other Perfons, unless it be fome few abfolutely necessary. The Second Volume, comprehends Special Gifts, Grants, Affignments, Mortgages, and |