Suggestions for a bill to regulate sales of property

Abstract

There is no legal topic more closely connected with economic science than sales of property: therefore I trust that a short paper on the subject may not be deemed out of place in this section of the British Association. Certainly there is no other single legal subject where the materials for rational legislation are more rich and abundant, nor where a systematic arrangement of these materials is more urgently needed ; and many symptoms indicate that the great work of reducing our chaotic corpus juris to order, may be accomplished much sooner than was thought possible some short time ago.