"But then a daring evasion by a leading conveyancer, known as the Lease and Release, received judicial sanction; and c…"

"We regard an action of Contract as an action to prevent or compensate for a breach of a promise; an action of Tort as…"

"The fate of the Statute of Uses is one of the most curious in legal history. Its secret and unavowed purpose, of secu…"

"The feudal warranty is, doubtless derived from the ancient duty of the feudal lord to protect his liege man 'with fir…"

"Thus the period we are studying is remarkable for achieving, not merely the right of free alienation of land, but als…"

"First in point of time and interest comes the mortgage debt, i.e. the claim for the return of money lent on the secur…"

"But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the chan…"

"The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friar…"

"A statute of 1344 shows some weakness; but the statute of 1391 is memorable, not merely as being the Mortmain Code of…"

"The progress of the nation in wealth and refinement, however, naturally brought with it an increase in the number of …"