Of last wills and testaments
Subtitle: 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.
Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esqs. for John Walthoe ...
Published: 1703
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Wills -- Great Britain
Notes: Signatures: pi² A⁸ a⁴  B-R⁸ S⁶+

Advertisements on 8 p. at end.

LC copy imperfect: wanting leaves A2-A7, as well as 8 p. at end; signature a bound out of order; lower part of t.p. slightly mutilated. Collation from ESTC.

Includes index.

ESTC T95469

Gift from Peabody LIbrary Association, Dec. 15, 1930.