REVISED, RE-ARRANGED, AND PARTLY RE-WRITTEN, BY W. ARNOLD JOLLY, M.A., OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. LONDON: BUTTERWORTH & Co., 7, FLEET STREET, E.C. PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION. DURING the interval of more than a quarter of a century, which has elapsed since "Seaborne's Vendors and Purchasers" first saw the light, no book has been published on precisely the same lines, although the want of a work of this character has, I believe, been generally felt. In the present edition, although I have endeavoured to preserve as much as possible of Mr. Seaborne's work, I have been compelled in great measure to re-write and re-arrange the book, and a comparison with previous editions will show that this is, to all intents and purposes, a new book. The object of this treatise, in its present form, is to furnish a clear, concise, and reliable exposition of the law relating to vendors and purchasers of real property, which may be of |