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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swinburne, Henry
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [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 1728, MDCCXXVIII. [1728]
Edition:The fifth edition, corrected and very much enlarged
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Collection: Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Item Description:English Short Title Catalog, N13966. - Originally published in 1590 as 'A briefe treatise of testaments and last willes'. - Reproduction of original from Harvard University Law Library. - With a half-title
Physical Description:Online-Ressource ([20],540,[12]p) 2°