The Laws Respecting Landlords, Tenants, And Lodgers, Laid Down in a..

1796. Now Affixed, For the Assistance of the Unprofessional Reader, A Dictionary of Law Terms" Bird, James Barry. The Laws Respecting Landlords, Tenants, And Lodgers, Laid Down in a Plain, Easy and Familiar Manner; Together with Practical Directions Concerning Leases, Assignments, Surrenders, Agreements, Covenants, Repairs, Waste, Fire, &c. Demand and Payment of Rent, Distress and Ejectment; As Collected from the Several Reports and Other Books of Authority, Up to the Present Time. To which are also Added, Cautions and Directions Relative to the Hiring and Letting of Houses and Apartments. Also Distinct Treatises on the Various Kinds of Estates, Particularly Estates for Life, For Years, And Copyhold Estates. With an Appendix of Precedents, Comprising a Great Variety of the Most Approved Forms of Leases, Assignments, Surrenders, Covenants, Notices to Quit, Receipts for Rent, And Precedents in Distress. To Which is Likewise Now Affixed, For the Assistance of the Unprofessional Reader, A Dictionary of Law Terms, Explaining the Import of Such Technical Words and Phrases as Occur in the Work. London: Printed for W. Clarke & Son, 1796. iv, [4], 120, [8] pp. Text followed by 3 pp. publisher catalogue. Octavo (8" x 5"). Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, lettering piece and blind fillets to spine, endpapers renewed. Moderate toning to interior, light wear to corners of text block, light foxing and soiling in places, gradually diminishing worm track near fore-edges of title page and following seven leaves, light soiling and a small dampspot to title page. An attractive copy of a scarce edition. $650. * Third edition. Bird produced a well-regarded series of handbooks on a broad range of legal topics. Written for both "the general reader" and "the young practitioner," according to the first edition's preface, The Laws Respecting Landlords was not an exception and went through many editions. The final edition was published in London in 1833. OCLC locates 6 copies of the third edition, 1 in North America (Huntington Library). English Short-Title Catalogue T68311.