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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt:...busy professional life must be my excuse for not having compressed the material into smaller compass and moulded it into more perfect shape. For the benefit of those who would like to investigate further this subject, I have appended a list of articles, most of them readily accessible, which discuss, in its various details, this question. It is proper to say that the opponents of this system have been ably represented in the discussion which it has excited, and that so great a change as that proposed by the Torrens System could not be introduced without arousing active opposition and shocking the conservative instincts of our profession. In the appended list of articles will be found a reference to an address delivered by A. M. Pence, Esq., of Chicago, before the Real Estate Congress when the subject of the Torrens System was under discussion, and no consideration of this question should ignore the criticisms which he so ably presented at that time, and which have since been published in the Chicago Legal News, under date of January 13, 1894. I am not at all inclined to believe that our profession will be found arrayed against this system, if after careful examination, it is found that its claims are well established, and its advantages to the public clear. Nor do I think that from a business point of view lawyers need fear a subtraction from their usual income by the change, as the bringing of property under the operation of the Act must render necessary the services of the profession in the preliminary search and preparation of the abstract, and the subsequent easy transfer of property must favor enlarged dealings where professional services have their part. Note.--Since this address was written the Massachusetts commission has reported two bills to the l...