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.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wills--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Wills.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([28],247,[21],8p. )

Other Title:

Of last wills and testaments

Place of Publication:

London : printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esqs; for John Walthoe in the Middle Temple Cloysters, 1703.

Notes:

With eight pages of advertisements.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T95469.

OCLC:

642756319