Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages, Vol. 1 of 2 By the Preface to the First Edition it appears that the Author at one time. Proposed to himself a more confined method of treating his subject; but recollecting the frequent embarrassments he had himself experienced in his studies, from books written as if intended more for the perusal of adopts in science, than for the instruction of the unlearned, he thought it most conformable to his original de sign, which was to smooth the way for others; to sacrifice conciseness, to perspicuity and accu racy - preferring the imputation of being prolix and tedious, to that of being obscure and perplexing. 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.