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II. Of the probate bona notabilia, and in general of evidence

of wills in all courts

III. Of the letters or grant of administration

IV. Of particular and supplementary administrations, and

such as are granted on the death of an Executor or

Administrator intestate

V. Of the power and interest of an Executor or Administra-

tor, in respect to the Testator's property

VI. Of the remedies at law and in equity

VII. Of the duties of an Executor in respect to the funeral

and official charges, and payment of debts

VIII. Of the duties of executors as to the payment of legacies

IX. Of distribution by an administrator

X. Of distribution by the Custom of London

XI. Of distribution by the Custom of York

XII. Of the liabilities, dangers, and defaults of Executors

XIII. Of the effect of promises by Executors and Adminis-

trators, to satisfy claims upon the estate of the testator or

Of the Statutes

29 Car. 2. c. 3. An act for the prevention of frauds and per-

9 Geo. 2. c. 36. An act to restrain the disposition of lands,

whereby the same become unalienable

14 Geo. 2. c. 20. Surplus of estates pur auter vie, how to pass,
if not devised

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25 Geo. 2. c. 6. An act for avoiding and putting an end to cer-

tain doubts and questions relating to the attestation of

Wills and Codicils, concerning real estates in that part of

Great Britain, called England, and in his Majesty's co-

lonies and plantations in America

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26 Geo. 3. c. 63. An act for the further preventing frauds and

abuses attending the payment of wages, prize money, and

other allowances, due for the service of petty officers and

seamen on board any of his majesty's ships

32 Geo. 3. c. 34. An act for explaining and amending an act

passed in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of his present

majesty, intituled: An act for the further preventing

frauds and abuses attending the payment of wages, prize

money, and other allowances, due for the service of petty

officers and seamen on board any of his majesty's ships:

and for further extending the benefits thereof to petty

officers and seamen, non-commissioned officers of marines,

and mariners serving, or who may have served, on board

any of his majesty's ships

39 and 40 Geo. 3. c. 98. An act to restrain all trusts and di-

rections in deeds or wills, whereby the profits or produce

of real or personal estates shall be accumulated, and the

beneficial enjoyment thereof postponed beyond the time

therein limited

II. PRECEDENTS OF WILLS, AND TESTA-

MENTARY DISPOSITIONS.

1. A convenient form of a will, containing dispositions of real

and personal property, the whole to form one fund, and go

as personal estate

2. A Will disposing principally of real property in shares

among children and grandchildren

3. A Will disposing of real and personal estate by way of pro-

vision for children

4. A Will comprising various dispositions of real and personal

estate, partly of testator's own estate, and partly in per-

formance of various trusts and obligations imposed on him

by antecedent settlements

5. Part of a Will directing a settlement, with limitations in a

strict form for preserving the estate in the family of the

6. A regular settlement upon the testator's family

7. A Will with limitations of the real property to the children

successively, and their sons and daughters in fee, with a

variety of other provisions by way of annuity and other-

8. Will consisting exclusively of provisions for wife and younger

children, by annuity, and portions charged upon all the

Testator's property

9. A Will chiefly settling renewable leases upon collateral rela-

tions; with other dispositions of personal estate

10. Will of an unmarried man, disposing of property chiefly in

charities and legacies

11. A Will disposing only of personal property in favour of the

Testator's daughter, and her children

12. A Will equally dividing the Testator's whole substance be-

tween his two sons, being his only children, subject to

provision for his widow

13. A Will, comprising directions for a settlement of freehold,

copyhold, and leasehold estates, with various limitations

and provisos, by way of annuities and rent charges; con-

taining also various bequests of chattels, and sums of money 386

14. A merchant's Will, providing for the continuance of his trade,

under the management of his executors, for the benefit of

his family, and for the future introduction of his sons into

15. A Will disposing of real and personal property by a Testator

leaving no family

16. Will by a citizen of London, containing provisions for

daughters and a son, with charities, and a provision for

keeping a tomb in repair

17. Will of a married woman, by virtue of a power

18. Short Will of an unmarried woman

19. Short Will of personal estate for an only daughter

20. A comprehensive devise and bequest of various descriptions of

property to Trustees, for the sale and accumulation of the

21. Power given in a Will to a person to whom a life estimate is

limited, to charge the estate with portions for younger

children, varying in amount with the number of children

to be provided for

22. Devise of advowson to Trustees to present a certain person

to the next avoidance

23. Words of a Will, whereby a Testator charges his debts, lega-

cies, &c. upon all his estate

24. Clause to prevent an annuitant under the Will from parting

with his annuity

25. Devise of copyholds and leaseholds, for lives and years, to

Trustees, to the same uses as the freehold

26. Devise of the residue of Testator's personal estate, in trust, to

sell, call in, dispose of, and convert into money, such part

as shall not consist of stock, or real securities, and invest it

in securities, and thereout make provision for a collateral

27. Bequest of jewels, &c.

28. Appointment under a power for the benefit of a Testator's

younger children

29. Clause in a Will, directing a power of selling and disposing,

to be inserted in the settlement directed to be made of the

Testator's real estates

30. Clause in a Will, by which the Testator, after limiting his

real estates to his son for life, remainder in the strict form

to the sons of such son successively in tail male, limits the

same to his two daughters in moieties, with survivorship for

life, to take exclusively of their husbands, with the same

remainders in tail to their respective children in succession,

with cross ultimate remainders; the whole being directory

of a settlement to be made

31. Devise of a sum to be applied in releasing poor prisoners

32. A preamble to a Will, the Testator being about to go to sea 472

33. A general form of a Codicil to a Will where only a few addi-

tional legacies are given

34. 'Another general form of a Codicil to a Will where several

legacies are revoked

35. A Codicil executing a power given by a settlement

36. A nuncupative Will committed to writing

37. Conclusion and attestation of a Will, written on several sheets

38. Common form of attestation

39. Attestation of a Codicil

III.-SUPPLEMENTARY MATTERS AND CASES

IN ELUCIDATION OF SOME OF THE SUB-

JECTS TREATED OF IN THESE VOLUMES.

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What words are necessary to pass leases renewed after the

making of a Will

SHEATH V. YORK.

1 Vesey and Beames, 390.

Revocation by marriage and the birth of children

DOE, ex dem. CALKIN, V. TOMKINSON and Others.

2 Maule and Selwyn, 165.

What contingent estates are devisable, and of the effect of the

word survivor,' added to words creating a tenancy in

WILKINSON V. ADAM.

1 Vesey and Beames, 422.

Natural children-under what words entitled

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