LONDON:CLARKE, PRINTERS, SILVER STREET,FALCON SQUARE.
LONDON:
CLARKE, PRINTERS, SILVER STREET,FALCON SQUARE.
PREFACE.
The utility of a little work of this kind is so obvious, that it needs no other setting forth than that given in the introductory observations with which it opens. It professes only to be a cautious guide, to make men acquainted with their rights, and not a professional assistant to obtain them; for it has ever been the author’s opinion, that there would be less litigation and distrust if there were more knowledge, and more probity if there were more intelligence. A difference rightly explained is half settled, and a mind enlightened is a mind directed as well as sustained; and if the few followingpages should make any of the community better informed as to their claims and position, with respect to their deceased relatives, he feels that he will have saved them, and those with whom they have to do, not a little trouble, and perhaps unpleasantry; and that he has contributed to the good-will as well as the information of his readers.