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Excerpt from A Practical Treatise of the Law of Vendors and Purchasers of Estates If it be agreed that the purchaser shall take possession of the estate, and pay interest on the purchase-money from that time, and it afterwards appear that a long time must elapse before a title can be made, the purchaser will be entitled to rescind the agreement. But if the purchaser acquiesce in the delay until the contract is nearly carried into execution, he cannot then appropriate the purchase-money, and, by giving notice of that circumstance to the vendor, discharge himself from the payment of interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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