PREFACE. SOME explanation may probably be expected on the appearance of the present Work on a subject which has been already so ably treated by preceding Authors. But the great changes made within the course of the last few years, both in our laws and in the practice of our Courts, seemed to point out the present as a fit moment for a careful revision of the Law of Landlord and Tenant, and this Work was undertaken with that view. In considering the course which for such purpose I would adopt, I determined on taking the text of the excellent Treatise of Mr. CoмYNS as my ground-work, having at the same time. reference to the Treatises of WOODFALL and CHAMBERS and making omissions and additions as the change of circumstances and of the law might require. A Work so framed would necessarily comprehend the important parts of all those Treatises. On this plan I have proceeded in the formation of this Work -in the course of which all the older authorities have in general been reviewed; the new rules of Court, bearing on the subject, have been introduced; and I have endeavoured to notice every decision on the subject up to the present time, which I can assure the Reader was no trifling labor. I should be ungrateful did I not acknowledge the great assistance I have received from the recent Editions of the Treatises of SELWYN, CHITTY, and TIDD, on the Law of Nisi Prius and Pleading, and the Treatise of Mr. Serjeant ADAMS on Ejectment, and beg to express my obligations to those learned Authors. Omissions and errors in a Work of such extent as the present are inevitable, but I would fain hope they are not numerous or important. I have found the task of completing this Work a heavy addition to the duties of an anxious and laborious profession, and with corresponding pleasure have brought it to a conclusion; but I shall be repaid if it receives the approbation of the profession, to whose kind judgment I freely commit it. Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, April, 1840. RICHARD HOLMES COOTE, II.-Of Leases by Persons enabled or disabled by Statute |