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A treatise of testaments and last wills : Compiled out of the Laws Ecclesiastical, Civil and Canon, as also out of the Common Laws, Customs and Statutes of this Realm. The Whole digested into Seven Parts, viz. I. What a Testament or Last Will is, and how many Kinds of Testaments there be. II. What Persons may make a Testament, and who may not. III. Describing what Things, and how much may be disposed by Will. IV. Decyphering the Forms, and in what Manner Testaments or Last Wills are to be made. V. What Person may be Executor of a Testament, or is capable of a Legacy. VI. Of the Office of an Executor, and of the several Kinds of Executors. Vii. Shewing by what Means Testaments or Last Wills become void. By Henry Swinburne, Sometime Judge of the Prerogative Court of York. corrected and very much enlarged With all such Statutes, Decrees in Chancery, and Resolutions of Common Law Cases relating to this Subject, and which have hither-to been published; with an exact Table to the Whole.
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- Author/Creator:
- Swinburne, Henry, 1560?-1623.
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.
- Standardized Title:
- Briefe treatise of testaments and last wils
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wills--Great Britain.
- Wills.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 20 unnumbered pages,540 pages, 12 unnumbered pages ; 2⁰
- Edition:
- The fifth edition, corrected and very much enlarged ..
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq;) and are to be sold by J. Knapton, A. Bettesworth, R. Gosling, W. and I. Innys, I. Oshorn and T. Longman, C. Rivington, J. Stogg, T. Osborn, D. Browne, and T. Worrall, MDCCXXVIII. [1728]
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- Notes:
- With a half-title.
- Originally published in 1590 as 'A briefe treatise of testaments and last willes'.
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
- Reproduction of original from Harvard University Law Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, N13966.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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