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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, gent. Author of the explanation of the law concerning bills of exchange, &c.
Lovelass, Peter, active 1786-1812.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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The law of devises, last wills, and revocations. By the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert. To which is added, a select number of wills, drawn by men eminent in the profession.
Gilbert, Geoffrey, Sir, 1674-1726.Date: 1792- 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- 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, 1653-Date: 1724- 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 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, Gent.
Lovelass, Peter, active 1786-1812.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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An essay upon the learning of devises, from their inception by writing, to their consummation by the death of the devisor. By John Joseph Powell, Esq. Of the middle temple, barrister at law.
Powell, John Joseph, 1755?-1801.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The law's disposal of a person's estate who dies without will or testament; shewing In a plain, clear, easy, and familiar Manner, how a Man's Family or Relations will be intitled to his Real and Personal Estate by the Laws of England, and the Customs of the City of London and Province of York. The second edition, revised, corrected, enlarged, and improved. To which is added, the disposal of a person's estate by will and testament; containing 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, getting in the Effects, and paying Debts and Legacies. By Peter Lovelass, of the Inner Temple, Gent.
Lovelass, Peter, active 1786-1812.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- 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, active 1786-1812.Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]- 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, active 1786-1812.Date: [1798]- Books
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The orphan's legacy: or, a testmentary abridgment. In three parts. I. Of last wills and testaments. II. Of executors and administrators. III. Of legacies and devises. Wherein The most Material Points of Law relating to that Subject, are succinctly Treated, as well according to the Common and Temporal, as Ecclesiastical and Civil Laws of this Realm. Illustrated With a great Variety of Select Cases in the Law of both Professions, as well delightful in the Theory, as useful for the Practice of all such as Study the one, or are either Active or Passive in the other. The fourth edition much augmented and enlarged. By John Godolphin, LL.D.
Godolphin, John, 1617-1678.Date: 1701- 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 century.Date: 1744- Books
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A treatise of testaments and last wills, ... By Henry Swinburne, ...
Swinburne, Henry, 1560?-1623.Date: 1743- Books
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The laws respecting wills, testaments, and codicils, and executors, administrators, and guardians, Laid down in a plain and easy Manner; in which all technical Terms of Law are familiarly explained; and in which The Statute of Wills, and such Parts of the Statute of Frauds and Perjuries as relate to the Subject of Devises, are particularly considered and expounded: with Remarks and Directions For the Use of those who are desirous of making their own Wills. Also The Methods of Descent and Distribution of Property, where no will is Made; as collected from the several reports and other books of authority, Up to the Present Time. Containing likewise a complete abstract of the Legacy Act, An Account of the Expence of proving a Will, and of obtaining Letters of Administration; the Stamps on which Discharges for Legacies and Distributive Shares, are to be written, &c. &c. With an appendix of precedents; Comprising a great Variety of the most approved Forms of Wills, Testaments, Codicils, &c. relative to every Description of Property. The third edition corrected and much enlarged. By the author of the laws respecting landlords and tenants.
Bird, James Barry.Date: [1799]- 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: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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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. What a Man may give or dispose of by his Will; of Revocations and new Publications of Wills. Of the State of Things upon the Testator's Death; what may be done by an Executor, &c. Of proving Wills, and of the Fees payable for the Probates. What Things shall come to Executors by or after the Testator's Death. Cases between Heir and Executor; and of Suits by or against them; and of the Method of Payment of the Testator's Debts. Of Devastavit or Wasting; and of an Executor in his own wrong. Of married Women and Infant Executors; of Legacies; of Executors of Executors: of Administrators. Originally compiled by that Approved and Judicious Author Thomas Wentworth, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq; To which is added, the Supplement of H. Curson, Gent. many Hundred References, by a Barrister of Grey's Inn; and since revised and brought down to the present Time, by a gentleman of the Inner Temple.
Wentworth, Thomas, 1568?-1628.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- 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- Books
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The law of devises, revocations, and last wills. To which is added, choice precedents of wills. By the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert.
Gilbert, Geoffrey, Sir, 1674-1726.Date: 1756- 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 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, Gent.
Lovelass, Peter, active 1786-1812.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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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: 1728- Books
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The will of King Henry Vii.
Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- 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: 1791- 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, 1653-Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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The law of testaments and last wills: What is necessary to be known by Testators, their Executors, Administrators, &c also what relates to the Distribution of Intestates Estates. What Persons are or are not capable of making a Testament; how Lands pass by Will, Nature of Devises and of Legacies to charitable Uses, &c. The Customs of London, &c. What Things the Executor, and what the Heir shall have of the Bona Paraphernalia, Cloaths, Ornaments, &c. Of assets, and what Debts to be paid first: To whom Administration shall be granted, their Power, &c. Who shall be an Executor of his own Wrong: How far liable to Creditors and Legatees, &c. Compiled by Robert Richardson, Gent. Author of the Attorney's Practice, Four Volumes.
Richardson, Robert, active 18th century.Date: 1769- Books
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The law of devises, last wills, and revocations. By the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert. To which is added, a select number of wills, drawn by men eminent in the profession.
Gilbert, Geoffrey, Sir, 1674-1726.Date: M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]- 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]