The law of testaments and last wills
Subtitle: containing all that is necessary to be known and practised by testators and their executors, administrators, &c., as also, what relates to the distribution of the estates of intestates, in the following particulars ...
Contributors: Lintot, Henry, 1703-1758, printer
Publisher: In the Savoy, Printed by Henry Lintot (assignee of Edward Sayer) for J. Osborn at the Golden Bull in Paternoster Row
Published: 1744
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Subjects: Wills; Early works to 1800
Notes: "Compiled by a gentleman of the law, for his own private Instruction, and now first published by his Permission."

Signatures: a-b⁸ B-2I⁸ K⁴.

ESTC T135725

LC copy is the gift of Peabody Library Association, Dec. 15, 1930.
Table of contents: title: The different Kinds of Testaments and Last Wills, By whom to be made, How to be executed, and, By what Means revocable; title: What Persons are, or are not, capable of making a Testament; title: How Lands pass by a Will, and for what Estates, With the Nature of devises of all Kinds; title: The Nature of a Legacy, How it differs from a Donatio Mortis Causâ, or Gift by Reason of Death, when, and to whom, to be paid, When to be abated or refunded; title: What relates to Interest and Maintenance, Devises to Charitable Uses, &c.; title: The Customs of London, &c.; title: The Revocation of a Testament, Republication, &c.; title: Who may be an Executor, His Power,  How limited, His Duty, Refusal of the Executorship: Probat, &c.; title: What Things the Executor shall have, and what the Heir; title: The Bona Paraphernalia, or Wife's Cloaths, Jewels, Ornaments, &c.; title: What shall be Assets, &c.; title: What Debts be first paid, &c.; title: Who shall be an Executor de son tort, or of his own Wrong, How far liable to Creditors and Legatees, &c.; title: To whom, and by whom, Administration shall be committed; title: The Power of an Administrator durante minori aetate, or during the Infancy of another Person; title: The Repeal of an Administration: Its Effects, &c.; title: In what Manner an Intestate's Estate shall be distributed, &c. &c.