An Essay in a Course of Lectures on Abstracts of Title, Vol. 1: To Facilitate the Study, and the Application of the First Principles, and General ... in Preparing, &C. And of Counsel in
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The general practice is to take the commencement of the title, so as to show the state of the evidence for a period of sixty years at least; and as often as circumstances will permit this should be done.