Excerpt from A Treatise on the Pleadings and Practice in Real Actions: With Precedents of Pleadings IT is more than three centuries since the common real actions have been almost 'wholly disused in Eng' land; their place being supplied by the action of eject ment. The real actions have consequently for many years past attracted very little of the attention of the profession in that country; and the law concerning them is to be sought chiefly in some few ancient writ ers, and in the Year Books, and other early reports. 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.