Excerpt from Registering Titles to Land: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale My first duty in occupying this chair to-day must be to express my deep gratitude to the corpo ration Of your celebrated University, for appoint ing me this year as Lecturer according to the William L. Storrs foundation. I must sincerely confess that I feel quite unworthy of the great honor bestowed on me, and at the same time quite unequal to assuming the responsibilities Of such an appointment. I beg, therefore, the indulgence Of all who shall gather here to attend these lec tures; and I plead quite guilty of an imperfect and defective knowledge Of your language. We are much too severe in France on foreigners who at tempt to Speak our tongue, and we only realize when we go abroad ourselves how very difficult it is for us to express correctly an idea in any other than our native tongue. 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.