FOR MAKING WILLS IN CONFORMITY WITH THE LAW, AND PARTICULARLY WITH REFERENCE TO THE ACT 1 VICTORIA, C. 26. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A CLEAR EXPOSITION OF THE LAW RELATING TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONAL ESTATE IN THE CASE OF INTESTACY. BY J. C. HUDSON, OF THE LEGACY DUTY OFFICE, LONDON. Second Edition, Corrected. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1838. 134. INTRODUCTION CONTENTS. .............. Page 1 Of the different descriptions of property, and how they may be disposed of by Will .............................. 22 Of the forms of Wills generally, and of such Bequests as require to be expressed with peculiar care and Plain exposition of the law relating to the division of the personal estate of persons who die intestate. General observations, and useful hints.... A Will disposing of personal estate only among the INTRODUCTION. IF, under the former state of the law, it were a duty, as some of our most eminent moral writers have declared it to be, in the case of every man who has property to leave, and relations or dependents who have claims on his regard, to make a Will, while health, both of body and mind, with other favourable circumstances, enable him to do so in an effectual manner; how much more necessary than formerly has it become to pay timely attention to the performance of this duty by the passing of the act of the 1 Victoria, c. 26.! Notwithstanding that there might exist a general conviction of the necessity of making a Will, and of the propriety of doing it with such regard to time B |