A Compendious and Accurate Treatise of Fines and Recoveries. Vol II..

1719. Rare Companion Volume to a Notable Early English Text on Real Estate Law Brown, W[illiam]. A Compendious and Accurate Treatise of Fines and Recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a Compleat Collection of Choice Precedents for Fines Upon Writs of Covenant, And Common Recoveries upon Writs of Entry in the Post, In All Cases; Whereby Lands May be Settled, 1. In the Crown, To Preserve the Same in the Name and Blood to the Utmost Posterity: Or, 2. The Same May be Transferred from One Person to another, in Fee-Simple, Fee-Tail, For Life or Years: Or, 3. Annuities, Or Rent-Charges, May be Granted thereby in Fee, In Tail, For Life or Years: And 4. Any Other Estate May be Raised Thereby, Which Can be Done by Deed of Conveyance at Common Law. To Which Precedents are Prefixt Two Discourses of the Nature and Operation of, And the Use and Practice Relating To, Fines and Recoveries, Deduced from Experience, And the Best Authors Both Ancient and Modern Upon the Subject. Very Much Corrected and Amended. [London]: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, And R. Gosling (Assigns of Edw. Sayer Esq;) for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward, 1719. [viii], 400, [24], 30, [2] pp. October (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Later three-quarter calf over cloth, lettering piece, blind fillets and black-stamped "2" to spine, endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing to extremities with light wear to joints, spine ends and corners, cracks in text block following title page and final text leaf, all leaves secure. Light toning to interior, light toning to a few leaves. $500. * Second, final and best edition. This work was first published in 1698 and reissued in 1700 with a title beginning Modus Transferendi Status per Recorda. Brown produced it as a companion to his Compendious and Accurate Treatise of Recoveries upon Writs of Entry in the Post, And Fines Upon Writs of Covenant, a well-regarded early text on real estate law first published in 1678. Thoroughly revised, the second edition was designated Volume II and sold alongside the final two editions of the Compendious and Accurate Treatise (the fifth and sixth, 1718, 1725). The first edition and its reissue are rare, the second edition is especially rare. OCLC and Library Hub locate 1 copy, at the University of York. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:489 (which considers i.