A Treatise on the Law of Wills (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of WillsThe only American work which may be thought to have occupied before a field like this is the well-known and popular one of Judge Redfield'. But the peculiar preparation of that work was such that further revision from the author's hand was looked for, and With the death of that accomplished scholar and revered friend, more than ten years ago, and the extinction of his family line, not only has revision failed alto gether, but other writers need no longer feel delicate in taking up the task anew. The present author may truly say that he has found far less assistance from that work than from those English standard authorities, Williams and Jar man, as annotated by our competent American editors.1 The brief treatises of Hawkins and Sir James Wigram have proved serviceable, too, under the head of Testamentary Construc tion, also Wharton and Stille on Medical Jurisprudence, where the wills of insane persons are discussed. All such assistance, English or American, is fairly shown by the cita tions at the foot of each page, and the present writer has collected his own materials, besides, relying throughout, as usual, upon his independent investigation of the law, and bringing the decisions, English as well as American, as nearly as possible to the date of publication.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.