PREFACE.

This book aims to place most of the New Jersey cases on Real Property Mortgages within quick, easy and certain reach of its consulter.

It is alphabetically arranged, yet several chapters contain the special application of other topics to its subject-matter. The Index, however, undertakes to summarize all of such references.

The various subdivisions at the head of each chapter give a bird's-eye view of what follows in the chapter.

Severe condensation characterizes the work and invites the reading of the entire chapter to one who expects to view its full

contents.

The work tries to let the Cases disclose their own heart, in their own words.

Following many cases, the expression, "and cases cited," invites attention to the view that later courts have taken of prior decisions; and one consulting the case itself may find himself well paid for so doing.

May the legal profession find this book even more helpful than its writer has good reason to believe it found his book on the Law of Married Women in New Jersey.

Plainfield, N. J., February 26, 1917.

R. K.