Browsing by Subject "Property law"
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An inquiry into the foreign systems of registering dealings with land by means of maps and indexes
(Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1852)The objects of registration are stated by Lord Langdale's Commission to be, "to provide for a purchaser a ready mode of assuring himself, that no document is in existence which can defeat or alter the title offered to ... -
On the substitution for the three-fold law of succession resting on the accidents of tenure, of a three-fold law for distinct classes of (1) landed gentry, (2) manufacturers, and (3) farmers, resting on the scientific basis of the observed usages of these different classes as to wills and settlements
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)In the discussions which have taken place on the law of successions in the United Kingdom, it has been commonly assumed that there is a simple issue involved, and the only change recommended or discussed is to extend the ... -
Report on the patent laws
(Society for Promoting Scientific Inquiries into Social Questions, 1851)I have, at your request, inquired into the state of the Law of Patents in this country, and I now beg to lay before you the result of that inquiry. My attention was particularly directed by you, "to the expense and delay ...