The extensive changes made of late years in the laws
affecting real property, have to a certain extent tendered the old tiirms of deeds useless, or worse than useless ; and grievous must be the condition of a country mechanical attorney, who sits down to that most distressing of undertakings, work against time, without knowing how to do it. The object of Mr. VALLIS BONE'S Pre- cedents in Conveyancing adapted to the Present Slate of the Law, B to extricate gentlemen from this dilemma, as well as to famish students and the profession with a body of practical documents readily available, and notes illustrating the principles on which they are drawn, or more frequently, as it seems to us, the dicta on which they rest. The First Part contains a Sensible introduction, discussing the nature and objects of the deeds. The deeds them- selves strike us as being fearfully verbose ; but as the auth allows this, and sometimes gives clauses in his notes which he omits but which others use, we suppose it is an evil necessary in theminds of lawyers and the present state of our laws, though nut in the nature of things.
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