This Third Edition has followed the method
adopted by the original Author. Cases
rendered obsolete by subsequent decisions
or statutes have not been entirely omitted,
but are recorded merely by a headnote,
with a footnote referring to the decision
or statute superseding them.
This course has been preferred to total
omission for three reasons, which seem
cogent to me as a Revising Barrister,
familiar with the needs, and anxious to
study the convenience, of persons engaged
in Registration work.
Firstly, because the book thereby is a
more complete record of both past and
present law on the subject, and a more
comprehensive register of its course.
Secondly, because many are engaged
in Registration work who are not in the vi
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legal profession, as well as those who are;
and, even in the latter case, the memory
of manifold Decisions and Statutes is
naturally liable to trip: in both cases,
occasional reliance on obsolete law can
obtain ready correction by a reference to
this Digest.
Thirdly, because many such Cases,
though no longer authority for the particular point at issue there, are instructive
and, possibly, authoritative upon the construction to be placed upon similar or
analogous sections or ...