AUTHOR OF AN ESSAY ON THE LAW OF DESCENTS, . VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. BUTTERWORTH, FLEET-STREET. PREFACE. THE Author is at length enabled to ful fil his intention of giving a fecond volume of a Treatise on Copyholds. The first, indeed, was, fo far as he was empowered to make it, complete in itfelf: it embraced the law relative to the NATURE, CREATION, TRANSFER, AND DESTRUCTION, OF COPYHOLD INTERESTS. There remained, however, 'fubjects which he confidered as neceffary to be treated of under the learning of copyholds, and which could not, with any propriety, be fufficiently investigated in that volume, without deranging the plan of the work and destroying the connection which he wifhed to preferve. In the prefent volume, therefore, he has treated of the CUSTOMARY COURT, of CUSTOMS, of FREE A 3 |