Excerpt from A Treatise on the Examination of Titles to Real Estate and the Preparation of Abstracts: With an Appendix of Forms For the want of a better term the word abstractor has been made use of to designate the person who prepares an abstract, which has not been sanctioned by any recognized authority. The employment of some such word seemed to be essential to clearness of expression, as that of examiner is a more general term and is applied with equal propriety to different classes of persons who engage in the investigation of titles. 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.