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• Lex custumaria, or, A treatise of copy-hold estates in respect of the lord, copy-holder wherein the nature of customs in general, and of particular customs, grants and surrenders, and their constructions and expositions in reference to the thing granted or surrendred, and the uses or limitations of estates are clearly illustrated : admittances, presentments, fines and forfeitures are fully handled, and many quaeries and difficulties by late resolution setled : leases, licences, extinquishments of copy-hold estates, and what statutes extend to copy-hold estates are explained : and also of actions by lord or tenant, and the manner of declaring and pleading, either generally or as to particular customs, with tryal and evidence holder may recieve relief in the Court of Chancery : to which are annexed presidents of conveyances respecting copy-holds, releases, surrenders, grants presentmets, and the like : as also presidents of court rolls, surrenders, admittances, presentments, &c. / by S.C., Barister at Law. (London : Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins ... for John Walthoe and are to be sold in his shop ..., 1696), by Samuel Carter (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Lex custumaria, or, A treatise of copy-hold estates in respect of the lord, copy-holder wherein the nature of customs in general, and of particular customs, grants and surrenders, and their constructions and expositions in reference to the thing granted or surrendred, and the uses or limitations of estates are clearly illustrated : admittances, presentments, fines and forfeitures are fully handled, and many quaeries and difficulties by late resolution setled : leases, licences, extinquishments of copy-hold estates, and what statutes extend to copy-hold estates are explained : and also of actions by lord or tenant, and the manner of declaring and pleading, either generally or as to particular customs, with tryal and evidence holder may recieve relief in the Court of Chancery : to which are annexed presidents of conveyances respecting copy-holds, releases, surrenders, grants presentmets, and the like : as also presidents of court rolls, surrenders, admittances, presentments, &c. / by S.C., Barister at Law. (London : Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins ... for John Walthoe and are to be sold in his shop ..., 1696), by Samuel Carter (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Book of precedents (Anno Domini. 1588. Imprinted at London : by Rychard Tottle, [1583]), by Thomas Phayer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The compleat clark, and scriveners guide. Containing exact draughts and presidents of all manner of assurances and instruments now in use: as they were penned and perfected by divers learned judges, eminent lawyers, and great conveyancers, both ancient and modern. Whereunto is also added a concordance of years, from the time of King Richard the third untill this present; very usefull for conveyancers and others. With an exact alphabeticall table, whereby any of the said presidents may be easily found out. (London : Printed by T.R. for H. Twyford, and are to be sold at his shop in Vine-Court Middle Temple, N. Brookes at the Angell in Cornhill, J. Place at Furnivals Inne Gate in Holborne, and R. Wingate, at the Golden Hind in Chancery-Lane, 1655) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Arcana clericalia, or, The mysteries of clarkship being a sure way of setling estates by [brace] deeds, fines, and recoveries : with the forms of all manner of charter-parties in maritime cities, towns and corporations : with a table of all the principle matters therein contained / by George Billinghurst ... (London : Printed for Henry Twyford ..., 1674), by George Billinghurst (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The state of the case relating to Sir John Turton's Lease of Heyling's-Park, and Russey-Park, within the forest of Needwood ([London : s.n., 1698]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• VVhereas many petitions have been preferred to the Right Honourable the Master of this Court for obtaining grants of severall vvardships and leases of the lands of his Majesties vvards, ... and like proceedings to continue from terme to terme, at the perill of the parties whom it doth or may concerne, untill further and other order to the contrary. Will. Say and seal. Benjamin Rudyerd. Row. Wandesford. Charles Maynard. Iames Tooke. ([London] : Printed for Edward Husband, printer to the Honourable House of Commons, at the signe of the Golden Dragon in Fleetstreet, [1645]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the purchasers of some lands, belonging to the corporation of Malmesbury, in the county of Wilts, by leases for 21 years. ([London : s.n., 1689?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons humbly offered, why the sale of the lands, and estates, belonging to the late Bishop of Durham, should not be confirmed. ([London : s.n., 1654]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A proclamation concerning leases and asserts. (Imprinted at London ;: By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie., Anno Dom. 1604. [i.e. 1605]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and King of England James I (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The case of Thomas Elwood bricklayer, and Richard Higginson mercer in Pater-noster-row, late alderman of London ([London : s.n., 1659]), by Thomas Elwood (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Severall select & choice presidents such as have not formerly been printed. (London : printed by F.L. for George Thompson, at the White Horse in Chancery-lane, near Lincolns-Inne, 1655), by Edward Henden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Perutilis tractatus. ([London] : Apud Richardum Totell, [1559?]), by John Perkins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Symbolaeographia. Part 2. (At London : Printed by Thomas Wight, Anno Do. 1601), by William West (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Symbolaeographia. Part 1 (At London : Printed by Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, Anno 1598), by William West (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The compleat lawyer, or, A treatise concerning [brace] tenures and estates in lands of inheritance for life and for yeares of chattels, reall and personall, and how any of them may be conveyed in a legall forme, by fine, recovery, deed or word, as the case shall require / per Guliel. Noy ... (London : Printed for D. Pakeman, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Rainebow, neer the Inner-Temple-gate in Fleetstreet, 1651), by William Noy (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Terms of depositation of the disposition by Mochrum to Greenock ([Edinburgh : s.n., 1688]), by James Dunbar and Isabel Nicolson (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The law of Texas now in force touching conveyancing and registration: including the statutes, and decisions of the Supreme Court of that state, as to the substance, form, authentication and registration of deeds and other written instruments authorized by law to be recorded, to have effect as constructive notice. (J.A. Nagle, 1877), by William Alexander, Texas. Supreme Court, and Texas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conveyance process : a supplement to the final report of the United States Railway Association. ([United States :bs.n.], 1986), by United States Railway Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Michigan law of conveyancing; a brief used in connection with lectures at the University of Detroit (F.S. Drake, 1916), by Lloyd L. Axford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crabb's Complete series of precedents in conveyancing and of common and commercial forms in alphabetical order, adapted to the present state of the law and the practice of conveyancing; with copious prefaces, observations and notes on the several deeds. (Butterworths; [etc., etc.], 1859), by George Crabb, Leonard Shelford, and James Traill Christie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conveyancer's guide; a poem, in two books, describing estates as they relate to conveyances and conveyances as they relate to estates. (A. Maxwell, 1821), by John Crisp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplement to A treatise on the West Indian incumbered estates acts, with reports of cases decided subsequently to the year 1864. (W. Amer, 1874), by Reginald John Cust and Great Britain. Commissioners for Sale of Incumbered Estates in the West Indies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of conveyancing. An elementary work for the use of students. (Stevens & Haynes, 1883), by Henry C. Deane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Graydon's forms of conveyancing & of practice in various courts & public offices ... (Walker, 1831), by William Graydon, J. P. Owens, and Peter Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of the law of personal property, intended for the use of students in conveyancing (Sweet, 1881), by Joshua Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of the law of personal property : intended for the use of students in conveyancing (H. Sweet, 1878), by Joshua Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on uses and trusts, and on the nature and operation of conveyances at common law, and of those which derive their effect from the Statute of uses. (R.H. Small, 1830), by Francis Williams Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• The accomplish'd conveyancer. Containing the nature and kinds of deeds and instruments used in conveyancing; and an abridgment of the law relating to all sorts of conveyances of estates ... (Printed by H. Lintot for D. Browne, 1750), by Giles Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legal forms : including forms in conveyancing, together with general legal and business forms, and precedents for ordinary use and unusual cases, with practical notes (Bobbs-Merrill, 1909), by Leonard A. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• A digest of the conveyancing, testamentary & registry laws of all the states of the union; embracing references to the leading decisions upon these subjects in most of the states, together with the forms of acknowledgement, probate, relinquishment, etc. required by the statutes of & in use in each, preceded by a brief treatise on the general rules relating to ... deeds & wills & followed by an appendix of ... forms ... (Little, 1854), by James B. Thornton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Real estate and conveyancing in Pennsylvania : with forms, and decisions to date (George T. Bisel co., 1922), by Louis W. Robey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reforms in land transfer, with suggestions for an improved system (Burr Printing House, 1902), by Dwight Hinckley Olmstead (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of leading cases on real property, conveyancing, and the construction of wills and deeds : with notes (Butterworths, 1879), by Owen Davies Tudor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes respecting registration and the extrinsic formalities of conveyances. Part I. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green [etc.], 1831), by Charles Purton Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American conveyancer: containing a large variety of legal forms and instruments in use throughout the United States. Together with forms and directions for applicants under the patent laws of the United States. (Little, Brown, and company, 1871), by George Ticknor Curtis and Mark H. Durgin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American pleader's assistant: being a collection of approved declarations, writs, returns and proceedings in the several actions now in use in the United States. (W. M'Carty, 1853), by Collinson Read, M. L. Shindel, William M. Rockefeller, and A. Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clerk's and conveyancers' assistant : a collection of forms of conveyancing, contracts, and legal proceedings ... (Baker, Voorhis & co., 1881), by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott and Austin Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forms in conveyancing (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1886), by Leonard A. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select cases and other authorities on the law of conveyances and related subjects (The editor, 1922), by Joseph Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat lawyer: or, A treatise concerning tenures & estates in lands of inheritance for life, and other hereditaments, and chattels real and personal. And how any of them may be conveyed in a legal form, by fine, recovery, deed or word, as the case shall require (Printed for and sold by J. Amery, 1674), by William Noy and John Wightwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A profitable book of Mr. Iohn Perkins, sometimes fellow of the Inner Temple. Treating of the laws of England. (Printed for Matthew Walbanck, and are to be sold at his shop within Grays-Inne gate, 1657), by John Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of the law of personal property, intended for the use of students in conveyancing. (Sweet & Maxwell, 1926), by Joshua Williams, W. J. Byrne, and T. Cyprian Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clerks' and conveyancers' assistant : a collection of forms of conveyancing contracts, and legal proceedings, for the use of the legal profession, business men, and public officers in the United States : with copious instructions, explanations, and authorities (Baker, Voorhis, 1911), by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Clarence F. Birdseye, and Austin Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The elements of conveyancing; with practical illustrations and select forms (H. Sweet, 1855), by William Clayton Clayton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land registry. Land transfer acts, 1875 and 1897. Report of the registrar of the Land Registry on the first three years (1899, 1900, and 1901) of the work of constructing a general register of title for the county of London. (Printed for H.M. Stationery Off., by Darling & Son, ltd., 1902), by Great Britain. Land Registry and Charles Fortescue Brickdale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clerk's and conveyancers' assistant. A collection of forms of conveyancing, contracts, and legal proceedings ... With copious instructions, explanations, and authorities (Baker, Voorhis & co., 1881), by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott and Austin Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical conveyancing : a selection of forms of general utility, with notes interspersed (Masters, Smith, 1853), by Benjamin L. Oliver and Peter Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)
• West Indian incumbered estates acts. (London, 1865), by Reginald John Cust, West Indian Incumbered estates acts, Henry James Stonor, Great Britain. Commissioners for Sales of Incumbered Estates in the West Indies, and Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canadian conveyancer : comprising a selection of conveyancing precedents, carefully revised and adapted to Canadian practice : forming a correct and reliable compendium of all the instruments required to be used in the ordinary transaction of legal affairs (J. Rordans, 1859), by J. Rordans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prideaux's Forms and precedents in conveyancing (incorporating Wolstenholme's Forms and precedents) : with dissertations and notes on its law and practice. (Stevens and Sons, 1913), by Frederick Prideaux, Edward Parker Wolstenholme, Reginald Beddington, and Benjamin Lennard Cherry (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual for notaries public, general conveyancers, commissioners, justices, mayors, consuls, etc., as to acknowledgments, affadavits, depositions, oaths, proofs, protests, etc.; for each state and territory, with forms and instructions (W. H. Anderson Co., 1928), by Florien Giauque and Aaron Du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Profitable booke of Mast. Iohn Perkins, Fellow of the Inner Temple. Treating of the Lawes of England. (Printed for the Company of Stationers. Cum Priuilegio., 1621), by John Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land transfer reform proceedings of a public meeting held in ... Toronto, on 12th February, 1890 (The Association, 1890), by Canada Land Law Amendment Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The investigation of titles to estates in fee simple (Adam, Stevenson, 1869), by Thomas Wardlaw Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of the law of real property intended as a first book for the use of students in conveyancing (Rowsell & Hutchison, 1881), by Joshua Williams and Alexander Leith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The investigation of titles to estates in fee simple (Willing and Williamson, 1873), by Thomas Wardlaw Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions sur la nécessité de l'enregistrement au long de la quittance et rapport de l'Assemblée régistrateurs du 16 février 1879 (s.n.], 1879) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of conveyancing in Pennsylvania. (Johnson, 1902), by Christopher Fallon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conveyancing practice according to the law of Scotland (W. Green & Sons, 1904), by John Burns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical conveyancing; a selection of forms of general utility. (Little, Brown, 1884), by Benjamin L. Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forms in conveyancing, and general legal forms, comprising precedents for ordinary use, and clauses adapted to special and unusual cases. With practical notes (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1891), by Leonard A. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• A concise and practical view of conveyancing in New Zealand : including the land transfer system; with precedents. (Whitcombe and Tombs, 1901), by Thomas Frederic Martin and New Zealand (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land transfer rules, 1903, 1907, and 1908 (consolidated), the land transfer fee order, 1908, and tables of fees. (Printed for H.M. Stationery off., by Darling & son, ltd., 1908), by Great Britain. Land Registry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Key and Elphinstone's Compendium of precedents in conveyancing. (Sweet and Maxwell, limited, 1914), by Thomas Key, Humphrey George Ambrose Baker, Horace Stuart Myer, Frederick Trentham Maw, and Howard Warburton Elphinstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Concise precedents in conveyancing with practical notes and with observations on some acts relating to real and personal property, and on compulsory registration. (Sweet & Maxwell, limited, 1910), by Charles Davidson, S. Wadsworth, M. G. Davidson, and Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Convention with Mexico for Solution of the Problem of the Chamizal. : Executive N, Message from the President of the U.S.: hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Eighty-Eighth Congress, first session, on Dec. 12, 13, 1963. (U.S. G.P.O., 1963), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great land question : being a verbatim transcript of the correspondence in Doe versus Roe (Stevens and Haynes, 1875), by C. Cavanagh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The student's guide to Prideaux's Conveyancing : comprising notes thereon ; together with a set of test questions and epitomes of the following acts of Parliament : the Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874 ; the Conveyancing Acts, 1881, 1882, & 1892 ; and the Settled Land Acts, 1882, 1884 & 1890 (G. Barber, 1899), by John Indermaur and Frederick Prideaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• The student's guide to Prideaux's Conveyancing : comprising notes thereon ; together with a set of test questions and epitomes of the following acts of Parliament : the Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874 ; the Conveyancing Acts, 1881, 1882, & 1892 ; the Settled Land Acts, 1882, 1884, 1887 & 1890 ; the Trustee Act, 1888 ; and the Trust Investment Act, 1889 (Geo. Barber, 1893), by John Indermaur and Frederick Prideaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• A concise explanation of Lord Birkenhead's act : (the Law of property act, 1922) in plain language (Butterworth,1922., 1922), by Arthur Underhill (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Concise treatise on the law and practice of conveyancing : Together with the Solicitors' remuneration act, 1881, and general order, 1882, and the Land transfer acts, 1875 and 1897, and the rules and orders thereon (H. Cox, 1900), by Richard Hallilay (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of conveyancing : in the form of examinations embracing both personal and heritable rights (Bell & Bradfute, 1867), by John Hendry and John T. Mowbray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles and practice in matters of, and appertaining to, conveyancing : Intended for the use of students and the profession. (G. Barber, 1900), by John Indermaur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles and practice in matters of, and appertaining to, conveyancing : Intended for the use of students and the profession. (G. Barber, 1910), by John Indermaur and Charles Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prideaux's Precedents in conveyancing : with dissertations on its law and practice (Stevens, 1879), by Frederick Prideaux and John Whitcombe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of real property : chiefly in relation to conveyance (The Blackstone publishing company, 1887), by Henry W. Challis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of real property : chiefly in relation to conveyance (Banks & Brothers, 1896), by Henry W. Challis (page images at HathiTrust)
• An epitome of leading conveyancing and equity cases : with some short notes thereon : chiefly intended as a guide to "Tudor's Leading cases on conveyancing" and "White and Tudor's Leading cases in equity." (Stevens and Haynes, 1913), by John Indermaur, Frederick Thomas White, and Owen Davies Tudor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index to precedents in conveyancing, and to common and commercial forms, arranged in alphabetical order with subdivisions of an analytical nature : together with an appendix containing an abstract of the Stamp Act, 1870, with a schedule of duties ; the reglations relative to, and the stamp duties payable on, probates of wills, letters of administration, legacies, and successions (Stevens and Haynes, 1872), by Walter Arthur Copinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of the practice of conveyancing : showing the present practice relating to the daily routine of conveyancing in solicitors' offices ; to which are added concise common forms and precedents in conveyancing ; -- conditions of sale ; conveyances ; and all other assurances in constant use. (Stevens, sons, and Haynes, 1865), by G. W. Greenwood and Henry Horwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compendium of the law of real and personal property : connected with conveyancing, for the use of students and practitioners (T. & J.W. Johnson, 1856), by Josiah W. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of real property : with an appendix of forms of conveyancing adapted to the law of the state of New York (W. Gould, 1883), by H. S. McCall (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of forms : containing more than two thousand forms, for practice in the courts of Pennsylvania, and of the United States, and for conveyancing, also for the use of public officers and men of business generally : adapted to the recent acts of assembly of Pennsylvania, with explanatory remarks, and numerous precedents and references to standard authorities : to which are appended a glossary of law terms, and a copious index (Kay & Brother, 1857), by James D. Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clerks' and conveyancers' assistant : a collection of forms of conveyancing contracts, and legal proceedings, for the use of the legal profession, business men, and public officers in the United States : with copious instructions, explanations, and authorities (Baker, Voorhis, 1899), by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Clarence F. Birdseye, and Austin Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clerks' and conveyancers' assistant : a collection of forms of conveyancing, contracts, and legal proceedings for the use of the legal profession, business men, and public officers in the United States with copious instructions, explanations, and authorities (Baker, Voorhis & Co., Law Booksellers and Publishers, 1878), by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott and Austin Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The act for the sale of real estate [in Pennsylvania] (Kay & Brother, 1874), by Eli K. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of real estate and conveyancing in Pennsylvania (Rees Welsh, 1890), by E. Coppée Mitchell and Robert Ralston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anderson's digest (Stevens and Sons, 1867), by Charles Henry Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims in conveyancing (Printed for W. Clarke, 1804), by Ralph Bradley and Joseph Ritson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conveyancing and other forms ; precedents for every province and territory of Canada, comprising forms in common use, special clauses, notes on the law, and references to cases and statutes. (Canada law Book Company, limited;, 1914), by A. H. O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defects in Iowa real property titles cured by statute (Callaghan and company, 1928), by Edwin Joseph Stason and Iowa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The draftsman: containing a collection of concise precedents and forms in conveyancing; with introductory observations and practical notes. (Butterworths; [etc., etc.], 1881), by James Henry Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the attornment clause and the license to distrain in mortgages and agreements for sale of land in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta : with references to the statutory right of distress of first mortgages under the Real property act, R.S.M., 1913, c. 171, and an appendix consisting of the text of the decision in a leading case and the texts of sections of statutes concerning things exempt or privileged from distress and priority of rent over writs of execution (Calgary : Burroughs & Co.; Toronto, Burroughs & Co. (Eastern) Ltd., 1924., 1924), by Roy Bayne Macinnes and John Jamieson Milne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select cases and other authorities on the law of property (The Editor, 1927), by Edward H. Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Key and Elphinstone's Compendium of precedents in conveyancing. (Sweet and Maxwell, 1926), by Thomas Key, Wilfrid Gutch, William Frederick Webster, Aubrey John Spencer, Howard Wade Renshaw, Frederick Trentham Maw, and Howard Warburton Elphinstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wolstenholme & Turner's Conveyancing Acts (W. Clowes and Sons, 1883), by Edward Parker Wolstenholme, Richard Ottaway Turner, and Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thornton on conveyancing (Little, Brown and Co., 1854), by James B. Thornton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elphinstone's Introduction to conveyancing and registration of land (Sweet & Maxwell, 1918), by Howard Warburton Elphinstone and Frederick Trentham Maw (page images at HathiTrust)

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