Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Fixtures, Embracing the Leading Decisions Upon the Subject, Both American and Englis: Bringing the Law Down to the Present Time When I commenced the preparation of the following work, I did so with a deep sense of the growing importance Of the complicated subject of which it treats, and with a decided impression that an exhaustive treatise upon the subject was needed, and would be appreciated by the legal profession. 'after the text was principally in manuscript, the publishers issued to the public a brief circular announc ing the forthcoming Of the work, in which they said Hitherto there has been no American work professing to give any thing like an extended or general View of that im portant branch'of the law which forms the subject Of this work. The little work of Mr. Hill, entitled 'a Manual Of the Law Of Fixtures, ' is very convenient in its way, but it purports to be little else than an index to the authorities upon the subject. This statement was strictly accurate at the time it was issued, but several months after the circular was promulgated, a Western publisher announced another work with a similar title, and I understand that the work has now actually made its appearance, although it has not, as yet, come under my personal notice. How far that work may have occupied the field, of course, I have no knowledge; but I flatter myself that the plan which I have adopted, and the elaborate and exhaustive manner in which I have car ried the plan out, will commend my own efforts to the kind consideration of my professional brethren. 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.