ten volumes quarto and three volumes folio, I am enabled to enrich the present work with a great variety of very useful forms. Here I shall close this catalogue; for of living writers it might, perhaps, be invidious to speak. XXXII. In adding another collection of Precedents in Conveyancing to the list already published, I owe it to the reader and to myself to say, that though, as an editor, I am answerable for whatever defects may be discovered and he who expects seek for what he can perfection in such a work will nowhere find;-yet the merits of the collectionand an editor may be excused for thinking them not inconsiderable-belong to others; whose names, if it were becoming to mention them, would alone afford sufficient reasons for this publication. It was my intention to subjoin to the Forms such annotations as seemed necessary to elucidate the principles which they practically exemplify; but finding that this would trespass too much on the topics more appropriately discussed in the first volume, I was obliged to abandon, at least in great measure, this part of my design. FORMS OF ASSURANCES. PART I. Common Forms. TITLE I. OF CONSIDERATIONS. I. NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, in pursuance and [further or part] performance of the said a ment on the part of the said A. B., and for and in consi tion (a) of the sum of £ of lawful money of Great B to the said A. B. in hand well and truly paid by the sa D. at or immediately before the sealing and delivery of presents, the receipt (b) of which said sum of £- in fu the absolute purchase of the hereditaments hereinafter pa larly mentioned, and intended to be hereby released, H said A. B. doth hereby admit and acknowledge, and o from the same, and every part thereof, Doth acquit, release discharge the said C. D., his heirs, appointees (c), exec administrators, and assigns, for ever, by these pre (a) Vide Vol. I. book ii. chap. iii. "Of Considerations." (b) In addition to this general receipt and release, it is us indorse on the deed another receipt to be signed by the vendo duly attested. This indorsed receipt, however, not being under amounts only to a parol primâ facie acknowledgment of pay and not to an estoppel. Vide Vol.I. book ii. chap. iii., and the case cited. (e) This word "appointees" ought only to be used when a of appointment is given. Variation, when [Or-the receipt &c. they the said A. A. and B. B. do paid to more hereby respectively admit and acknowledge, and of and from than one. the same, and every part thereof, Do, and each of them Doth acquit, release, and discharge the said C. D., his heirs, appointees, executors, administrators, and assigns, for ever, by When paid by these presents. Or-the receipt &c., and of and from the same &c., Doth acquit, release, and discharge the said A. B. and C. D., and each of them, their and each of their heirs, appointees, executors, administrators, and assigns, for ever, by these presents], He &c. more than one. Deposit and payment of residue. When paid by Commissioners of Woods and Forests on behalf of his Majesty. II. In consideration of the sum of £, the deposit money paid by the said A. B. as aforesaid, and for and in consideration of the sum of £, to the said C. D. in hand well and truly paid by the said A. B. at or immediately before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the payment and receipt respectively of which said sums of £and £, making together the sum of £, the purchase money aforesaid, the said C. D. doth hereby admit and acknowledge, and of and from the same, and every part thereof, Doth acquit, release, and discharge the said A. B., his heirs, appointees, executors, administrators, and assigns, for ever, by these presents. of lawful III. In consideration of the sum of £ money of Great Britain, at or immediately before the sealing and delivery of these presents to the said A. B. in hand well and truly paid by the said C. D. &c., for and on behalf of his said Majesty, the payment of which said sum of £ and that the same is in full for the absolute purchase of the fee-simple and inheritance in possession of the messuages or tenements and hereditaments hereinafter described, and intended to be hereby bargained and sold, he the said A. B. doth hereby acknowledge, and of and from the same, and every part thereof, Doth acquit, release, and discharge the said C. D. &c., their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, and also his said Majesty, his heirs and successors, for ever, by these presents, He the said &c. |