Excerpt from The Land Laws

Some words of introduction seem desirable in order to explain what this book aims at, and what it does not. The subject is the Land Laws of England, not those of Scotland or of Ireland, which, for different reasons, were beyond my plan. Scotland has a distinct legal system of her own with a distinct history; the study of it, a highly interesting one so far as with my slight knowledge of it I can judge, would be a separate undertaking. Irish land law, on the other hand, is nothing but imported English law with certain modifications. The only material modifications are those lately made in the relations of landlord and tenant, and they are too much involved with political controversies, and with still unsettled questions peculiar to Ireland, to be profitably treated in connection with English institutions.

Dealing, then, with England alone, I have endeavoured to make the principles and the leading features of our law of real property intelligible to a reader who is without legal training, but is willing to take some little pains to understand.

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