c. 87) providing for the establishment of a registry for titles to real property, and making sundry provisions for the transfer of lands and the recording of the evidences thereof. It presents some analogies to the recording laws of the American states.—Land waiter. In English law. An officer of the custom-house, whose duty is, up on landing any merchandise, to examine, taste, weigh, or measure it, and to take an account thereof. In some ports they also execute the office of a coast waiter. They are likewise o~ casionally styled “searchers” and are to attend and join with the patent searcher in the execution of all cockets for the shipping of goods to be exported to foreign parts; ; in cases where drawbacks on bounties are to be paid to the merchant on the exportation of any