A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF EASEMENTS. BY CHARLES JAMES GALE, ESQ. OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW. The Second Edition. LONDON: S. SWEET, 1, CHANCERY LANE, FLEET STREET, HODGES AND SMITH, GRAFTON STREET, Dublin. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS, LORD DEN MAN, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND, THIS WORK IS, (WITH HIS LORDSHIP'S PERMISSION,) RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE favourable terms in which the First Edition of this work has been spoken of, by many whose voice on such subjects is authority, have permitted the Author to believe that some service has been rendered by presenting it to the profession. He may be excused in referring with peculiar gratification to the approbation expressed of it by the late Lord Chief Justice Tindal, than whom no judge was ever more respected or regretted. The introduction of the Civil Law, "the collective wisdom of ages," into this Treatise, has, it is believed, been found extremely useful; and, indeed, on this branch of our law the opinions of the civilians seem to be now almost adopted as authority (a). (a) Vide per Lord Wynford in the Privy Council, Benest v. Pipon, 1 Knapp. 69, post, 86; and the judgment of the Court of Exchequer Chamber in Acton v. Blundell, delivered by Tindal, C. J., post, 181 f. |