Excerpt from Compensation to Land and House Owners: Being a Treatise on the Law of the Compensation for Interests in Lands, Etc, Payable by Railway and Other Public Companies; With an Appendix of Forms and Statutes The following Treatise is an attempt to explain in a plain and intelligible manner the complicated provi sions which regulate the acquisition Of Land by Rail way and other public companies, and the Compensation payable therefor to the owners and occupiers. The importance of the subject has been greatly increased by the development which has been recently given to railway communication. After having overspread the country, our railway system has invaded the interior of the metropolis and of other large towns. In this way a great mass of valuable interests in land has been brought under the Operation of the branch Of law to which this volume relates. Several important judicial decisions too have been lately given, affecting this class of cases. A flesh Treatise seemed thus to be called for, and In the present volume the Author has endea voured to supply the want. He has spared no pains to make his treatment of the subject at once clear, accu rate, and 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.