Tenants Law: Or, The Laws Concerning Landlords, Tenants and Farmers...
A Classic English Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant [R.T., Gent.]. Tenants Law: Or, The Laws Concerning Landlords, Tenants and Farmers. (Viz.) 1. Of the Several Kinds of Tenants and Tenures. 2. Of Leases, Covenants, Surrenders, And Assignments, &c. 3. Of Rent: Acceptance and Extinguishment Thereof. 4. Of Crops Growing, And Trees Blown Down, &c. Who are Entitled to Them. 5. Of Distresses, Replevins, And Rescous. 6. Of Waste; What is So, And What Not. 7. Of Common for Cattle. 8. Of Frauds in Buying and Selling Lands or Goods. 9. Of Trespasses and Nusances. 10. Modern Observations Relating to Covenants on Leases. 11. Of the Late Act to Prevent Fires; And Rules to be Observed in Erecting of New Buildings in and About London. Useful for All Landlords, Tenants, Farmers, Stewards, Agents, Solicitors and Others, Concerned in the Buying, Selling, Or Letting Estates. With all the Modern Cases: In Which are Added All such Acts of Parliament and Resolutions, As Relate to These Subjects, Down to the Present Year; And Likewise Plain Directions for Distraining for Rent. London: Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers; For T. Waller, 1768. [ii], 320, [28] pp. 12mo. (6-1/2" x 4"). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, blind fillets along joints, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few minor nicks, scuffs and stains to boards, somewhat heavier rubbing to extremities, corners bumped and somewhat worn. Light toning to interior, marks and columns of numbers in small early hand to free endpapers and rear pastedown. A well-preserved copy. $275. * Later edition. First published in 1666, shortly after the Great Fire of London, this layman's guide was immediately popular. With additions and other modifications at each printing. The identity of "R.T., Gent.," whose name appears on several early editions, is unknown. English Short-Title Catalogue T136618.
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