Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-05-11
ILLNESS AND RECOVERY OF CONSUL Ro

| BERT G. SCOTT, JR.
! we have been permitted to make an extract from
letter i.0iu Mr. Moa!le, u. S. Minister at Rio, Ia
Mr.. H. G. Scott, Sr., which announces that Mr. K. G.
| Scott, Dr., has recovered from severe attack of
yellow fever, that Wa evidently caused by his de'
voted attention 10 thoss sick with that fever at Rio
Janeiro. His many friends will peruse the following
| extract with interest:
"Rlo De JANEiRo,
March 3D. 1858.
at is with sincere pleasure and thanks to an over
ruling Providence, that announce TO you the
~ OF your son, from attack of yellow fever with
"hen lie nus been lately visited. The fever is still
prevailing i'll Rio To a considerable extent Your son
ici, t'e city on Saturday the 2h to spend the 22nd
oi February with ine in PetropoIs where the Empe-
ror ana his suite are temporarily staying. He WAS ia.
ken the day after his arrival and for three days was
very sick : his physician was a Frenchman of consd
erhb!e reputation. On the fourth day he pronounced
him ont OF danger. lie very impatient to get back
to his business but shall keep him back As long as
| think il prudent to deain him. The shipping hss
suffered very much from the fever II is now abaing
there and Increasing in The city.
lt was s0rce of great satisfaction TO me- to meet
your son and Col Garnet and have reason TO think
they were equally pleased at my arrival
Your son makes an excellent Consul and ! learn
That the people OF Rio much pleased at the pros.
peCi OF his continuance in office. To the sea captains
he gives entire satisfaction and is very popular with
them Ills society can only enjoy i'll the evening,
for fIe is constantly engaged in the forenoon.
"A revolution broke out ia Moutevid u few weeks
ago, with unexampled barbarity OIL both sides |
learn that the revouUiists in arms, were all captured
by the Government forces their leaders, ~ in mum.
Der, Were Garbarously shot, and every tenth OF
the ranS and file put 10 death. Ii is thought that a
fearful retrbuton awaits the Government party in
future"
TIE LAW OF VENDORS AND PURCHASERS
OF REAL PROPERTY. Sy FRANCIS Hill.
LARD, Author Of tho claw of Mortgages &C.,
In two Volumes. Boston. LITTLE, BRows ~
COMPANY. 1853.
This is new work Of great erudon and excel
ence, by well known and distinguished American
urist.
In 1888 Mr.. billiard publishad the fret edition
of his we'll known treatise on "TuE AMERICAN Law
or REAL PROPERTY" That work, Justly aud pro.
pery discarded, in consequence of their dsuss in
iIs country, many of the feuda doctrines as to The
Law OF real property which have been carefully pre-.
served in the English works 10 the annoyance and
disgust of the American lawyer and student The
law was presented by him modified aud adapted to
our institutions, by Judicial decisions, and by
tbs statutory enacments of the various States and,
profession in this country 1t 2sasad through many
editions, and was followed by Il treatise on "Ths
Law Of Mortgages" which is too we'll and lavorahly
known to .ts profession 10 require notice at our
haniS.
After many years experience and practice, with
reputation n real estate lawyer second 10 man
in New England, Mr.. billiard has Just published his
long expected work on Vendors and Purchasers Of
Real Property
The work contains nothing that is superiuous and
useess. All that has become ob,o!e,e in American
practice s discarded. Such fossil titles as Fine and
Recovery, "Auvowson," Copyhold," &c., &C., so
fearful to the student Of Coke and Cruise have been
omitted The book is vital from the first to the last
page with principles and rules of every day Ameri.
can practice, and exhaustive Of the decisions OF
American Courts. upon questions relating 10 the
practical workings of the American law Of real pro-
perty. 1t coversathe whole ground of contracts for
The safe and purchase of real cstate and hence is dec
tined TO become the pads mecnm Of the land dawyef
in those portions of the Union where every gnie and
The book occupies the came ground in American
law which has been successfully occupied in the
English Inv by Sir Edward Sugden, in his famous
work OH "VESOoRs and PURCHASERS" of which
countless editions have been published in England.
The plan anl arrangement of MIR. billiards work
are totally different, however, from that of Sugdens
and 10 the American practitioner far more intoligi-
bio and appropriate.
II begins with The distinction between executed
and executory contracts; and proceeds TO explain
what s necessary to constitute n contract, its con.
-deration, parties, construction and orm-includng
ssIes by auction the statute OF frauds license and
part performance Then follows the time OF per.
formance tbo title to property sold, and in natural
success.nn partial failure OF title and the general
grounds for avoiding and resembling sale, in whole,
or in part, whether for total partial want of title,
for nonpaymsnt Of the price, or other causes, in.
Guiding mstske, fraud, the sale of expecances, &c.
The second volume is devoted TO the subject of RENE
dies for enforcing contracts In law and in equity. and
treats the whole subject in the most lucid and ssts-
factory manner. 1t also treats of occupation DANA
ges pleading parties, and miscellaneous points of
practice.
The two volumes are bound in one, and make an
exceedingly handsome volume of about $50 pages
Ii s for sale III the stores OF Geo NJ. West and a.
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