Legal declaration by which a person names one or more persons to manage their estate and provide for the distribution of their property at death

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A family gathers to hear the last will and testament of a deceased member with the old lady by the door looking startled. Engraving after D. Wilkie.

Your rights in the AIDS era. 4, Wills / Immunity.

Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Engraving by J. Pesne after N. Poussin.

[British Red Cross Society leaflet about making a will and asking for donations via legacies].

Antiochus IV of Syria, sick and injured by a fall from his chariot, dictates his will as surgeons bandage his leg. Etching by N. Hallé, 1738.

Two executors overcharge a heir, taking advantage of their distress. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.

Eudamidas dictating his will on his deathbed, leaving the care of his mother and daughter to two friends. Drawing by A.-Ch. Coumeau or Courneau, 1802-1804, after N. Poussin.

A sick man is seated in an armchair and a doctor is writing his prescription; two monks in the background. Engraving after E. van Heemskerck, 17--.

A dying man making his will to lawyers while a relative cries. Line engraving.

A man suffering from dropsy dictating his will while a physician takes his pulse, he is surrounded by his wife and friends. Engraving.

Let's make our relationships count : pensions, inheritance, housing, respect : help Stonewall win rights for same-sex partners / Stonewall.

Index to wills proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich and now preserved in the District Probate Registry at Norwich / compiled and edited by M.A. Farrow.

Index of the administrations 1604-1686 in the Consistory Court of Norwich and in the Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich preserved in the Norfolk Record Office / Timothy Hawes.

Index of Lincoln Consistory Court wills and inventories, 1660-1700 / edited by Grace Hains and the late C.W. Foster.

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Wills

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A man suffering from dropsy dictating his will while a physician takes his pulse, he is surrounded by his wife and friends. Engraving.

Let's make our relationships count : pensions, inheritance, housing, respect : help Stonewall win rights for same-sex partners / Stonewall.

Index to wills proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich and now preserved in the District Probate Registry at Norwich / compiled and edited by M.A. Farrow.

Index of the administrations 1604-1686 in the Consistory Court of Norwich and in the Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich preserved in the Norfolk Record Office / Timothy Hawes.

Index of Lincoln Consistory Court wills and inventories, 1660-1700 / edited by Grace Hains and the late C.W. Foster.

Wills

Images from the collections

Images referencing Wills

Works from the collections

A man suffering from dropsy dictating his will while a physician takes his pulse, he is surrounded by his wife and friends. Engraving.

Let's make our relationships count : pensions, inheritance, housing, respect : help Stonewall win rights for same-sex partners / Stonewall.

Index to wills proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich and now preserved in the District Probate Registry at Norwich / compiled and edited by M.A. Farrow.

Index of the administrations 1604-1686 in the Consistory Court of Norwich and in the Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich preserved in the Norfolk Record Office / Timothy Hawes.

Index of Lincoln Consistory Court wills and inventories, 1660-1700 / edited by Grace Hains and the late C.W. Foster.

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