Of last wills and testaments : a common-law treatise, containing several rules for the construction of last wills, and the Diversities between Limitations and Conditions in a Will. Of treating also of Contingent Remainders, and of Executory Devises: And by what Names, Descriptions, Extents or References, things shall pass in a Will; what Words or Sentences in a Will shall amount to a Fee-Simple, Fee-Tail or Term of Life. Of Surrenders to the use of a Man's last Will. Of Devises for Term of Years. Of Perpetuities. Of Executory Devises, Contingencies, Possibilities. Devises of Lands to be Sold for Payment of Debts, or raising Portions. Devises of Rents, Annuities. Of Evidence and Witness to a last Will: And of Revocations, Codicils and Nuncupative Wills; and several Cases adjudged and resolved upon the several late Statutes, that have altered the Common-Law.
Category
Books
Date
1703
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 3256916
Summary
Bibliographic description
[28],247,[21],8p. ; 8vo. Provenance: bookplate: Noel Hill, 1st Baron Berwick, (1745-1789); pre-1784; festoon armorial. Franks 14768. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double blind fillet border, with blind roll spine margin; sewn onto five raised bands; remnant of gilt tooling on board edges.