RELATING TO THE PRIORITY OF INCUMBRANCES AND OF OTHER RIGHTS IN PROPERTY. BY WILLIAM GEORGE ROBINSON, M.A., OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. PREFACE. THE aim of this little book is to simplify, by stating in a systematic form, a complicated and rather abstruse branch of Equity Jurisprudence. The doctrines which relate to and control the priority of incumbrances and of other rights in property form, perhaps, the most intricate portion of treatises upon the Law of Sale or of Mortgage. Their difficulty is attributable to a variety of distinctions and refinements, the creation for the most part of accumulated decisions, and not readily accessible in the multitude of reported cases which in effect constitute the law applicable to the subject. The plan of the following pages may be said to consist in the statement of a few governing Rules, explained by judicial exposition of the principle upon which they rest, and illustrated by such of the reported cases as appeared to be the simplest, |