Author: SEWELL, HENRY.
Title: A Letter to Lord Worsley on The Burthens Affecting Real Property Arising from the Present State of the Law: with Reasons in Favour of A General Registry of Titles.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [ii], 110, (2) advertisements; bound in later quarter beige cloth over marbled board, title label on spine, fine copy. London; Henry Butterworth, 7, Fleet Street; 1846. Henry Sewell (1807-1879) who at the time of writing this letter was a solicitor from the Isle of Wight who seemed a failure at home, beset by family financial debt. However he later emigrate to New Zealand and become a successful both financially and in his political and legal career. He partly filled his personal ambition shown in the letter to Worsley, by creating the first new land Registry District in Auckland province in 1863 and played a part in the debates in 1870 which preceded the introduction of the Torrens-type system of land registration generally in the colony.

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