A Practical Exposition of the Law of Wills, with plain instructions and advice to testators, executors, administrators and legatees, and observations on the consequences of intestacy, etc |
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... leaving behind him the character of a just , kind , and wise member of society should delay or defer to perform the simplest and most easy act of human obligation — that of disposing of his property in the way he wishes it to descend ...
... leaving behind him the character of a just , kind , and wise member of society should delay or defer to perform the simplest and most easy act of human obligation — that of disposing of his property in the way he wishes it to descend ...
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... Let us not , therefore , if we wish to leave behind us . the reputation of having been men of sense , and of making our memory " smell sweet in the grave , ' ness . 99 hazard blunders , and errors , and " the wayward- B 2 LAW OF WILLS . 3.
... Let us not , therefore , if we wish to leave behind us . the reputation of having been men of sense , and of making our memory " smell sweet in the grave , ' ness . 99 hazard blunders , and errors , and " the wayward- B 2 LAW OF WILLS . 3.
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... leave as few debts as possible for his executors to pay . For though a return of the probate - duty paid on such debts is allowed on proper application at the Legacy - Duty- Office , a precaution of this kind may save much trouble and ...
... leave as few debts as possible for his executors to pay . For though a return of the probate - duty paid on such debts is allowed on proper application at the Legacy - Duty- Office , a precaution of this kind may save much trouble and ...
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... leaving a legacy to a married woman , if he does not appoint trustees over the same , and give the most specific ... leave a legacy of £ 20 , or thereabouts , to any one , he should limit the legacy to the sum of £ 19 : 19 , as by so ...
... leaving a legacy to a married woman , if he does not appoint trustees over the same , and give the most specific ... leave a legacy of £ 20 , or thereabouts , to any one , he should limit the legacy to the sum of £ 19 : 19 , as by so ...
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Esq. Richard Dickson. 6. If a testator leaves legacies , payable quar- terly , half - yearly , or at any other specified period , he should remember that unless he leaves specific directions that they are to be paid free of the legacy ...
Esq. Richard Dickson. 6. If a testator leaves legacies , payable quar- terly , half - yearly , or at any other specified period , he should remember that unless he leaves specific directions that they are to be paid free of the legacy ...
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Page 69 - ... shall remain and continue in force until the same be burnt, cancelled, torn or obliterated by the testator or his directions, in manner aforesaid, or unless the same be altered by some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing of the devisor, signed in the presence of three or four witnesses declaring the same; any former law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 201 - GF and the survivor of them, and the executors, administrators, and assigns of such survivor...
Page 169 - ... on lives, if any, and without deducting any thing on account of the debts due and owing from the deceased, are under the value of a certain sum to be therein...
Page 206 - ... my last will and testament. As witness my hand and seal this twenty first day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty five (1785).
Page 200 - ... hereinafter expressed and declared of and concerning the same (that is to say...
Page 202 - ... being a son or sons, shall attain the age of twenty-one years, or being a daughter or daughters, shall attain that age or marry...
Page 200 - I do revoke all former wills by me at any time heretofore made, and do declare this only to be my last will and testament.
Page 168 - Act," and that the Personal Estate in respect of which such Probate or Letters of Administration are to be or have been granted, exclusive of what the Deceased may have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee, and not beneficially, but...
Page 171 - ... to be granted, exclusive of what the deceased shall have been possessed of or entitled to as a trustee for any other person or persons, and not beneficially, but...
Page 7 - To this he never yielded for an instant. Alas, in this age numbers of men are setting up to be their own inspired writers. I have been told that every man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client...