The gentleman's steward and tenants of manors instructed. Containing rational, easy, and familiar rules and tables for finding the value of estates of freehold, copyhold, or leasehold, as well on lives as for years absolute, &c. With an enquiry into the nature of the annual disbursements, precariousness of the tenure, and casualties, that estates are charged with, and how they are to be accounted for in the valuation. The tables being founded on Dr. Halley's hypothesis, and calculated by the method laid down by Abr. de Moivre / To which is added an appendix, containing the description and use of an instrument for discovering the number of feet contained in any timber-trees, by inspection only.

  • Richards, John, land surveyor.
Date:
1730
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The gentleman's steward and tenants of manors instructed. Containing rational, easy, and familiar rules and tables for finding the value of estates of freehold, copyhold, or leasehold, as well on lives as for years absolute, &c. With an enquiry into the nature of the annual disbursements, precariousness of the tenure, and casualties, that estates are charged with, and how they are to be accounted for in the valuation. The tables being founded on Dr. Halley's hypothesis, and calculated by the method laid down by Abr. de Moivre / To which is added an appendix, containing the description and use of an instrument for discovering the number of feet contained in any timber-trees, by inspection only. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] , is 10.56 Years ; this, multiplied by ^5, pro¬ duces -:=--6S<? From the lame Table, the Value of the-x joint Lives at per Cent, is ii.iy f Years; which multiplied into ii/. >124 the yearly Out-goings in Rates, \ Tythes, and Repairs, produces— ^ By the lame Table, the Value at 4I per Cent, is 10.^2 Years Value, which, multiplied by 3 L the yearly Rent to 'the Lord, produces .... Hence the Value of the Eftate for two joint Lives, (that is,) to continue till one of them dies, is ■ ■—-» Example HI. To find the Value of three joint Lives on the lame Eftate, one of whom is 12, another a 2, and the third 42 Years old. From Tab, y, finding the Age of the youngeft at the Top, the next at the Left- hand Column, and the other in the fecond Column to the Left Hand, under 5 per Cent. J take out the Value of the three joint Lives, which is 7.83 Years; this drawn into ^5, the yearly Rent, produces —-£, jop At the lame Place ( and under 4 per Cent.) I find 8.15, which multiplied by fiL the Produ^ft is — ■ Again;