Excerpt from New Clerk's Magazine; Containing All the Most Useful Forms, Which Occur in Business Transactions Between Man and Man, 1833: Comprising Many Valuable Forms Not Before Given in Any One Collection

This labour has not been induced by a belief that there were not enough books of forms before the public. But most of those which we have seen are voluminous, and rather adapted to the wants of the profession, than the public. The professional man is too familiar with common forms to make a reference to books necessary while he writes them. And these common forms are almost the only ones used by the rest of the community. It is obvious then that books of a different description are wanted for the profession, and the citizens generally. There are smaller books of forms.' But some of them are local in their application, or chiefly applicable to the statute provisions of particular states. Others are ancient, and contain much that is rarely wanted, and omit much that would be of daily use.

In this compilation strict regard has not been had to the titles in existing books, nor to the proportionate length generally assigned to each. Some unusual titles have been introduced, and some common ones wholly omitted.

A compendious manual is wanted by the citizen, con taining the simplest forms that will guide him safely in his transactions of most frequent occurrence. It is believed that many, if not most of the legal forms introduced into this country from England, although much simplified and improved, still contain words, phrases and sentences, which add nothing to the legal strength of the instrument, and only serve to render it obscure, and in some instances almost unintelligible, by useless verbiage. Contracts are found where the words, his heirs, executors, administra tors and assigns, ' in their frequent recurrence, constitute nearly one third of the whole language used. If instead of these one or two simple sentences could be introduced, which would leave the strength and design of the instru ment unimpaired, it would be an obvious improvement.

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