Excerpt from Wharton's Law-Lexicon: Forming an Epitome of the Law of England; And Containing Full Explanations of the Technical Terms and Phrases Thereof, Both Ancient and Modern; Including the Various Legal Terms Used in Commercial Business Articles on the subjects of the Bills of Exchange Act, the Married Women's Property Act, the Settled Land Act, and all the other important statutes of 1882, have been inserted in their proper places. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.