The law of wills
By: by William Herbert Page
Edition: 2d ed., rewritten, rev. and enl., with forms.
Publisher: W.H. Anderson Co.
Published: 1928
Place of publication: Cincinnati, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Estate planning; Inheritance and transfer tax; Wills
Table of contents: title: V. 1. 1. Introduction; title: 2. History of the law of wills and testaments; title: 3. Nature and extent of testamentary power; title: 4. Inherent elements of a will, distinction between will and other transactions; title: 5. Contingent wills; title: 6. Joint, mutual and reciprocal wills; title: 7. The contract to make a will; title: 8. Capacity to make a will; title: 9. Mistake, misrepresentation and fraud; title: 10. Undue influence and duress; title: 11. What can be disposed of by will; title: 12. Who can take by will; title: 13. Extrinsic elements of a written will of the ordinary type; title: 14. Special types of will; title: 15. Revocation; title: 16. Alteration and spoliation; title: 17. Republication; title: 18. Probate and contest of domestic wills; title: 19. Probate and contest of lost and spoliated wills; title: 20. Probate and contest of foreign wills; title: 21. Evidence; title: 22. Construction : general principles; title: 23. Description of property; title: 24. Description of beneficiaries; title: v. 2. 25. Gifts to a class; title: 26. Distribution of shares : per stirpes and per capita; title: 27. Nature of estate; title: 18. Gifts of income and annuities; title: 29. Testamentary trusts other than charitable; title: 30. Charitable trusts; title: 31. Perpetuities and accumulations; title: 32. Vested and contingent interests; title: 33. Conditions; title: 34. Powers; title: 35. Conversion; title: 36. Election; title: 37. Classes of legacies and devises; title: 38. Renunciation and acceptance of legacies and devises; title: 39. Lapsed and void legacies and devises; title: 40. Charge of legacies; title: 41. Charge of debts; title: 42. Abatement; title: 43. Ademption; title: 44. Advancements; title: 45. Contribution; title: 46. Satisfaction and discharge of debts; title: 47. Cumulative and substitutional legacies; title: 48. Rights of devisees and legatees to the enjoyment of property given by will; title: 49. Suits to construe wills; title: 50. Evidence in aid of construction; title: 51. Law controlling wills and testaments; title: Forms, precedents and suggestions for drafting wills, for probate and contest, and for suits to construe wills.