Shall we Register Title By Tenison Edwards, Esq., Barrister-at- Law.
(Chapman and Hall.)—This momentous question is answered very decidedly in the affirmative by Mr. Edwards, who declares, with all onfidence, that every landowner who is likely at any period of his life either to sell or mortgage any of his property ought, beyond question, to register his title without delay. He examines, with some detail, the principal objections which have been urged against Lord Westbury's Registry Act, and comes to the conclusion that they emanate mainly, if not entirely, from country solicitors, who, since the adoption of registra- tion as a regular practice would materially diminish their fees, naturally oppose its introduction by every means in their power. On the general question Mr. Edwards, we are inclined to think, makes out a pretty good case ; but we cannot at all join with him in finding fault with the editor of the Law Times, who, in printing a letter which Mr. Edwards addressed to him on the subject, declined to insert a remarkably dull joke in which his correspondent had thought fit to indulge.
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