Excerpt from The Principles of the Law of Real Property, According to the Text of Blackstone: Incorporating the Alterations Down to the Present Time The only transposition which the writer found himself called on to make, was, to bring the subject of Uses and Trusts into a separate and early chapter, instead of leaving it to be introduced incidentally in the chapter on Alien ation by Deed. He considers himself justified in doing this, inasmuch as the doctrine of Uses and Trusts pervades the whole law of Real Property, and few parts of it can be rightly understood without some knowledge of this doctrine. It would have been easy to have enlarged many parts of the work; and the writer was much tempted to do this, especially in the chapter on Uses and Trusts. It was thought however better, on the whole, to leave the work, where it continues unaltered, as it was, and to refer the reader to other books for information. 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.