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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    r [ 8i ] ready Money at the Rate of legal Intereft? v/z. 5 fer Cent. ? By 2. I find the Value of i /. payable at the End of 14 Years, is .505 decimal Parts of a Pound; which being multiplied by 320 gives the Value of the Reverfion, that is, 162 L I need not foul Paper by producing more Examples of this Kind; for by this may be leen the Method to find the Worth of 2 or 3 Lives in Reverfion for a Term of Years, and allb of a Term of Years in Reverfion of a Term in If it be required to fhew the Value of a Term of Years in Reverfion of a Life or Lives ; firft find the Number of Years Value of the Eftate in and then, by 7ab. i. fee how many Years it mull continue to pro¬ duce that Value; and the Value of the Eftate in ^ojfe^ payable after the Expiration of this Number of Years, is the Sum to be paid in hand for the Expedancy. If a Life be to be nominated at the Death of another, the Sum to be paid for it may be found, by feeking in the Tables the Number of Years of an Annuity that is of equal Va¬ lue with each of the Lives; and then find (in the Table for that purpofe) the Value of the Money that the Life in will be worth at the Death of the other, and the pre¬ fen t Value of fuch a Sum is the Sum requi¬ red* Exam-*, M