The office and duty of executors, or, A treatise directing testators to form and executors to perform their wills and testaments according to law
By: originally compiled by the judicious and approved author Tho. Wentworth ... ; 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 ...
Contributors: Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555-1628, supposed author; Curson, H. (Henry); Bay, Elihu Hall, 1754-1838, inscriber; Alexander, James, 1691-1756, inscriber
Publisher: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq.) for D. Browne, R. Sare, J. Walthoe, M. Taylor, R. Gosling, and J. Osborn
Published: 1720
Place of publication: In the Savoy [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Wills; Executors and administrators
Other titles: Office and duty of executors; Treatise directing testators to form and executors to perform their wills and testaments according to law
Notes: Originally published anonymously; sometimes attributed to Sir John Doddridge.

Signatures: a² A-2L⁸ 2M⁶.

Includes indexes.

Bookseller's advertisement: p. [71-72] at end.

LC copy has inscriptions: James Alexander; E.H. Bay; "[?] at the sale of Alex. Macpherson, E.H. Bay".

English Short Title Catalogue, entry N10551

LC copy has the armorial bookplate of James Louis Petigrul.