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The office and duty of executors or, a treatise directing testators to form, and executors to perform their wills and testaments according to law. Originally compiled by that judicious and approved author, Tho. Wentworth, late Bencher of Lincoln's-Inn. And now enlarged with a supplement, containing Divers Matters and Things not comprized in former Impressions, relating to Wills, Executors, Administrators, Devises, Legacies, &c. Collected from the Common and Statute Laws, and methodically digested, rendring the whole compleat, and in all its Parts conformable to the present Time and Laws now in Force. With References to the several Acts of Parliament and authentick Books of Reports both Ancient and Modern authorizing and approving the same. By H Curson of the Inner-Temple.
Wentworth, Thomas, 1568?-1628.Date: 1720- E-books
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A treatise of testaments and last wills , ... By Henry Swinburne, ..
Swinburne, Henry, 1560?-1623.Date: 1743- E-books
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The law's disposal of a person's estate who dies without will or testament shewing in a clear, plain, easy, and familiar manner, how a man's family or relations will be entitled to his real and personal estate, by the Laws of England, and Customs of the City of London and Province of York. To which is Added The Disposal of a Person's Estate By Will and Testament; Containing An Explanation of the Mortmain-Act, With Instructions and necessary Forms for every Person to make, alter, and republish his own Will. Likewise Directions for Executors how to act after the Testator's Death, with respect to proving his Will, taking upon them the Executorship, getting in the Effects, and paying Debts and Legacies. By Peter Lovelass, of the Inner Temple, Conveyancer. Author of the Trader's Safeguard, or Explanation of the Law concerning Bills of Exchange, &c. Volume the First.
Lovelass, Peter, fl. 1786-1812.Date: [1798]- E-books
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A collection of all the wills, now known to be extant, of the kings and queens of England, princes and princesses of Wales, and every branch of the blood royal, from the reign of William the Conqueror, to that of Henry the Seventh exclusive. With explanatory notes, and a glossary
Date: 1780- E-books
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A true copy of the last will and testament of the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum containing, I. His confession of faith. II. His charitable benefactions. III. An account of the history of his life and times, with Directions for the Publication of that and other Manuscripts. To which is added, the inscription on the monument erected to his memory, in the parish church of St. James Clerkenwell.
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.Date: [1717]- E-books
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The law of testaments and last wills . Containing all that is necessary to be known and practised by testators and their executors, administrators, &c. As also, what relates to the Distribution of the Estates of Intestates. In the following Particulars. The different Kinds of Testaments and Last Wills: By whom to be made: How to be executed: and, By what Means revocable. What Persons are, or are not, capable of making a Testament. How Lands pass by a Will; and for what Estates: With the Nature of Devises of all Kinds. The Nature of a Legacy: How it differs from a Donatio Mortis Causâ, or Gift by Reason of Death: When, and to whom, to be paid: When to be abated or refunded. What relates to Interest and Maintenance: Devises to Charitable Uses, &c. The Customs of London, &c. The Revocation of a Testament, Republication, &c. Who may be an Executor: His Power: How limited: His Duty: Refusal of the Executorship: Probat, &c. What Things the Executor shall have, and what the Heir. The Bona Paraphernalia; or Wife's Cloaths, Jewels, Ornaments, &c. What shall be Assets, &c. What Debts be first paid, &c. Who shall be an Executor de son tort, or of his own Wrong. How far liable to Creditors and Legatees, &c. To whom, and by whom, Administration shall be committed. The Power of an Administrator durante minori aetate, or during the Infancy of another Person. The Repeal of an Administration: Its Effects, &c. In what Manner an Intestate's Estate shall be distributed, &c. &c. Compiled by a gentleman of the law, for his own private Instruction, and now first published by his Permission.
Richardson, Robert, active 18th centuryDate: 1744- E-books
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Copies of opinions ascribed to eminent council, on the will, which was the subject of the case of Perrin v. Blake, before the Court of King's Bench in 1769 . Addressed to the Right Honourable William, Earl of Mansfield. By Charles Fearne, Esq. barrister at law, of the inner temple, author of the essay on the learning of contingent remainders, and executory devises.
Fearne, Charles, 1742-1794.Date: 1794- E-books
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The will of King Henry Vii
Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- E-books
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Lex testamentaria or, a compendious system of all the laws of England, as well before the statute of Henry Viii. as since, concerning last wills and testaments. In which are collected, all the Judgments and Resolutions dispers'd in the Year-Books, and all other Reports both in Law and Equity, what Estates in Fee, in Tail, for Life or Years, have been created by Wills either expresly or by Implication. Treating also of all Cases concerning Executory Devises and Legacies. And of all Actions, Pleas, and Judgments, by, for, or against Executors, Administrators, and Guardians. Very necessary for all such who are, or may be, entitled to any Estates by Virtue of any Will or Administration, or as Guardians to Infants. Collected in a more plain, easy, and methodical Manner than hitherto hath been done in any Treatise of this Nature. By Wm Nelson of the Middle-Temple, Esq;.
Nelson, William, b. 1653.Date: 1724- E-books
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The law's disposal of a person's estate who dies without will or testament shewing, in a clear, plain, easy, and familiar manner, how a man's family or relations will be entitled to his real and personal estate by the Laws of England, and the Customs of the City of London and Province of York. To which is added, The Disposal of a Person's Estate By Will and Testament; containing An explanation of the Mortmain Act, with Instructions and necessary Forms for every Person to make, alter, and republish his own Will: likewise directions for Executers how to act after the Testator's Death, with respect to proving his Will, taking upon them the Executorship, getting in the Effects, and paying debts and legacies. By Peter Lovelass, of the Inner Temple, Gent.
Lovelass, Peter, fl. 1786-1812.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- E-books
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Essay upon the law of contracts and agreements . By John Joseph Powell, ... In two volumes.
Powell, John Joseph, 1755?-1801.Date: 1790