Names and Changes of Name
A TREATISE ON THE LAW CONCERNING NAMES AND CHANGES OF NAME BY ARTHUR CHARLES FOX-DAVIES, OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, ANDl P. W. P. CARLYON-BRITTON, F.S.A. LONDON ELLIOT STOCK, 62 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 1906 PREFACE. A SERIES of articles under the same title which appears upon the present volume appeared some years ago in the Genealogical Magazine over the signatures A. C. F. D. and A. M. R., the latter initials being those of Mr. A. M. Rickards. The revision and extension of those articles into the book form in which they now appear has been the joint work of Mr. Carlyon-Britton and myself, so that the actual authorship is rather a composite matter, although Mr. Rickards has, of course, no responsibility for the extended, revised and later form. A. C. FOX-DAVIES. CONTENTS. PAGE NAMES, . I FRONT NAMES, . 2 SURNAMES, . 13 CHANGES OF NAME, . 42 PROCEDURE, . 76 DEEDS POLL, . ROYAL LICENCES, . - . 90 ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, . 105 THE NAMES OF BASTARDS, . 107 INDEX, . 113 A TREATISE ON THE LAW CONCERNING NAMES AND CHANGES OF NAME. NAMES. of of view, the consideration F ROMthe subjectthe legal of point names presents very abnormal difficulties from the initial obstacle that it is almost impossible to properly define a name. With one or two rare exceptions, which will be afterwards referred to, nothing in the nature of a right which can be enforced against either a specific person or the com- munity at large is created either by the circumstances of origin, by prescription or by custom.
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