PREFACE.
The Lord Chief Justice of England, in a recently-delivered speech, remarked that the people of this country were but imperfectly acquainted with its laws.
That such should be the case need be no cause for surprise, since, on reading an Act of Parliament, we generally find that it consists of numerous clauses badly arranged, composed of sentences much involved, and expressed in words purely technical.
Without directly charging upon this Act the above grave faults, the Author yet thinks it possible to make its meaning more clear.
With this object in view, he has re-arranged and grouped its clauses, amplified the sentences, and expressed them in every-day language; and, in so doing, hopes that the few following pages may not be unworthy of perusal by those Landlords and Tenants for whose special use they are intended.
The Author has purposely omitted to remark on several of the sections, finding some so clear as to need no comment, while, others are totally devoid of interest to those for whom this work has been compiled.
1, Essex Court, Temple.
December 10, 1875.
