Legal documents that are declarations of individuals' wishes regarding the disposal of their property or estate after death; esp: written instruments, legally executed, by which dispositions are made of estates. LIVING WILLS are written declarations regarding prolongation of life by extraordinary means.
    

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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].

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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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.