EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE SUBJECT of the ensuing Treatise is one of very general interest. It embraces an extensive variety of particulars relative to the negotiation of a large portion of human affairs. Every possessor of property is more or less connected with some Mortgage transaction-either personally, or by those through whom his title is derived. A knowledge therefore of the operation and effect of a Mortgage security must be very desirable to all who stand in the relation of lender and borrower, and especially to those from whom a ready and intimate acquaintance with the subject is professionally required. To assist in communicating accurate and useful information on this branch of legal learning, was the original design of the present undertaking; and the Editor hopes, that in the ample field of annotation into which he has been imperceptibly led, he has not lost sight of the grand object to which the |
