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  1. Swinburne, Henry [Author]

    A briefe treatise of testaments and last vvils : very profitable to be understood of all the subiects of this realme of England, (desirous to know, whether, whereof, and how, they may make their testaments: and by what meanes the same may be effected or hindered) and no lesse acceptable, aswell for the rarenesse of the work, as for the easinesse of the style and method. Compiled of such lawes ecclesiasticall and civill, as be not repugnant to the lawes, customes, or statutes of this realme, nor derogatorie to the prerogative royall. In which treatise also are inserted divers statutes of this land, together with mention of sundry customes, as well generall as particular; not impertinent thereto. By Henry Swinburne, sometime judge of the prerogative court of Yorke. Newly corrected and augmented, with necessary tables

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    London: Printed by I[ohn] L[egat, Felix Kingston, Richard Bishop and John Dawson] for the Company of Stationers, 1640 ; Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999

    Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO

  2. Swinburne, Henry [Author]

    A briefe treatise of testaments and last vvils : very profitable to be vnderstood of all the subiects of this realme of England, (desirous to know, whether, whereof, and how, they may make their testaments: and by what meanes the same may be effected or hindered,) and no lesse acceptable, aswell for the rarenesse of the worke, as for the easinesse of the stile and method. Compiled of such lawes ecclesiasticall and ciuill, as be not repugnant to the lawes, customes, or statutes of this realme, nor derogatorie to the prerogatiue royall. In which treatise also are inserted diuers statutes of this land, together with mention of sundry customes, as well generall as particular; not impertinent thereto. By Henry Swinburne, sometime judge of the prerogatiue court of Yorke newly corrected and augmented, with necessary tables

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    London: Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby and Thomas Harper] for the Company of Stationers, 1635 ; Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999

    Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO

  3. Swinburne, Henry [Author]

    A briefe treatise of testaments and last vvilles : very profitable to be vnderstoode of all the subiects of this realme of England, (desirous to know, whether, whereof, and how, they may make their testaments: and by what meanes the same may be effected or hindered,) and no lesse acceptable, aswell for the rarenesse of the worke, as for the easinesse of the stile, and method: compiled of such lawes ecclesiasticall and ciuill, as be not repugnant to the lawes, customes, or statutes of this realme, nor derogatorie to the prerogatiue royall. In which treatise also are inserted diuers statutes of this land ... besides diuers marginall notes, and quotations not to be neglected ... with two tables, the one analyticall ... The other alphabeticall ... Newly corrected and augmented with sundry principall additions by the industrie of Henrie Swinburn, iudge of the prerogatiue court of the Lord Archibishop of Yorke, and Bachelour of the Ciuill Lawe

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    Printed at London: [By William Stansby? and Thomas Snodham] for the Companie of Stationers, 1611 ; Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999

    Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO

  4. Swinburne, Henry [Author]

    A briefe treatise of testaments and last willes : very profitable to be vnderstoode of all the subiects of this realme of England, (desirous to know, whether, whereof, and how, they may make their testaments: and by what meanes the same may be effected or hindered,) and no lesse delightfull, aswell for the rarenes of the worke, as for the easines of the stile, and method: compiled of such lawes ecclesiasticall and ciuill, as be not repugnant to the lawes, customes, or statutes of this realme, nor derogatorie to the prerogatiue royall. In which treatise also are inserted diuers statutes of this land, together with mention of sundrie customes, aswell general as particular, not impertinent thereunto: besides diuers marginall notes, and quotations not to be neglected, especially of Iustinianists, or young students of the ciuil law: vvith two tables, the one analyticall ... the other alphabeticall ... By the industrie of Henrie Swinburn, Bachelar of the Ciuill Lawe

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    London: Printed by Iohn Windet, 1590 [i.e. 1591] ; Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999

    Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO

  5. A strict adherence to established ceremonies, the only security to property : Illustrated by a circumstantial relation of the methods used to disinherit two young ladies living in the county of Norfolk. A narrative founded on fact. Wherein are inserted Some Thoughts relating to the Bill now depending, for avoiding and putting an End to certain Doubts relating to the Attestation of Wills concerning Real Estates

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    London: printed for W. Owen, at Homer's-Head, near Temple-Bar, [1752] ; Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009

  6. Gilbert, Geoffrey Sir [Author]

    An historical account of the original and nature : as well as the Law of devises and revocations. By a late Learned Judge

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    [London]: In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for J. Walthoe, over-against the Royal Exchange, in Cornhill, M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739] ; Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009

  7. Of last wills and testaments: a common-law treatise, containing several rules for the construction of last wills, and the Diversities between Limitations and Conditions in a Will. Of treating also of Contingent Remainders, and of Executory Devises: And by what Names, Descriptions, Extents or References, things shall pass in a Will; what Words or Sentences in a Will shall amount to a Fee-Simple, Fee-Tail or Term of Life. Of Surrenders to the use of a Man's last Will. Of Devises for Term of Years. Of Perpetuities. Of Executory Devises, Contingencies, Possibilities. Devises of Lands to be Sold for Payment of Debts, or raising Portions. Devises of Rents, Annuities. Of Evidence and Witness to a last Will: And of Revocations, Codicils and Nuncupative Wills; and several Cases adjudged and resolved upon the several late Statutes, that have altered the Common-Law

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    London: printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esqs; for John Walthoe in the Middle Temple Cloysters, 1703 ; Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009

  8. Wentworth, Thomas [Author]

    The office and dutie of executors, or, A treatise of wils and executors, directed to testators in the choice of their executors and contrivance of their wils : with direction for executors in the execution of of [sic] their office, according to the law, and for creditors in the recovery of their debts : with divers other particulars very usefull and profitable for all persons, be they either executors, creditors or debtors - [The fourth edition, corrected and amended]

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    London: Printed by Tho. Maxey, for Henry Twiford in Vine Court, Middle Temple, 1656 ; Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999

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  9. Stirling, Mary Vanlore Alexander Countess of [Other]

    To the right honourable, the Parliament of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland : The humble petition of Mary Countess of Sterling, and John Blount her husband, Sir Robert Crooke k ight [sic], and Dame Susan his wife, Henry Alexander, alias Zinzan, and Jacoba his wife, Sackville Glemham, and Peter Glemham (the said Countess dame Susan, Jacoba, Sackvile, and Peter Glemham, being grand-children of Sir Peter Vanlore the elder, deceased; and your petitioners the said Countess, Dame Susan, and Jacoba, being the right Heires of the said Sir Peter, and of Dame Mary Powel his daughter, (late the wife of Sir Edward Powel deceased) (that is to say) daughters and heires of Sir Peter Vanlore the younger (deceased) onely son and heire of the said Sir Peter the elder

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    [London: s.n, 1654] ; Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999

    Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO

  10. Wentworth, Thomas [Author] ; Doddridge, John Sir [Other]

    The office and dutie of executors. Or A treatise of wils and executors, directed to testators in the choise of their executors and contrivance of their wills : With direction for executors in the execution of their office, according to the law, and for creditors in the recovery of their debts. Expressing the duty, right, interest, power and authority of executors, and how they may behave themselves in the office of executorship. With divers other particulars very usefull, profitable, and behovefull for all persons, be they either executors, creditors or debtors. Compiled out of the body of the common-law, by Thomas Wentworth, late bencher of Lincolnes Inne - [The third edition, corrected and inlarged]

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    London: Printed by T. C. for Andrew Crooke, Laurence Chapman, William Cooke, and Richard Best, 1641 ; Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999

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  11. Great Britain Parliament, Great Britain Parliament

    A bill for making the exemplification of the last will of the Right Honourable Richard late Earl of Burlington and Cork : deceased, Evidence in all Courts of Law and Equity in Great Britain and Ireland

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    [London]: s.n, [1756] ; Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009

  12. Meriton, George [Author]

    The touchstone of wills, testaments, and administrations : being a compendium of cases & resolutions touching the same : carefully collected out of the ecclesiastical, civil and canon-laws, as also out of the customs, common laws, and statutes of this kingdom

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    London: Printed for W. Leak, A. Roper, F. Tyton, T. Dring, J. Place, W. Place, J. Starkey, T. Basset, R. Pawlet, & S. Herrick, 1668 ; Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999

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  13. Lovelass, Peter [Author]

    The law's disposal of a person's estate who dies without will or testament : shewing in a clear, plain, easy, and familiar manner, how a man's family or relations will be entitled to his real and personal estate, by the Laws of England, and Customs of the City of London and Province of York. To which is Added The Disposal of a Person's Estate By Will and Testament; Containing An Explanation of the Mortmain-Act, With Instructions and necessary Forms for every Person to make, alter, and republish his own Will. Likewise Directions for Executors how to act after the Testator's Death, with respect to proving his Will, taking upon them the Executorship, getting in the Effects, and paying Debts and Legacies. By Peter Lovelass, of the Inner Temple, Conveyancer. Author of the Trader's Safeguard, or Explanation of the Law concerning Bills of Exchange, &c. Volume the First - [The ninth edition]

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    London: printed for the author; and sold by R. Pheney, Inner Temple-Lane; and may be had by booksellers at the author's house, in Tabernacle Row, near Finsbury-Square. MDCCXCVIII. W. Blackader, printer, 10, Took's Court, Chancers Lane, [1798] ; Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009

  14. Mitford, Eardley [Author]

    The law of wills, codicils, and revocations : With plain and familiar instructions for executors, administrators, devisees, and legatees. Including great variety of forms of wills and codicils, Adapted to the Circumstances of Persons of all Ranks and Situations, who would wish to devise or bequeath their Property legally and securely, and prevent vexatious Law Suits among their surviving Relatives and Friends. Including the modern Decisions and Acts of Parliament on these Subjects, down to michaelmas term, 1800. To which is added, a clear and distinct account of the law's disposal of the estates of those who die intestate or without a will. Calculated for the use of the public in general, as well as the professors of the law. With ample Instructions for obtaining Probate of Wills, and Letters of Administration. The second edition with additions. By Eardley Mitford, Esq. Conveyancer

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    London: printed by W. Stratford, Crown-Court, Temple-Bar; for J. Stratford, No. 112, Holborn-Hill, 1800 ; Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009

  15. Mitford, Eardley [Author]

    The law of wills, codicils, and revocations : With plain and familiar instructions for executors, administrators, devisees, and legatees. Including great variety of forms of wills and codicils, adapted to the circumstances of persons of all ranks and situations, who would wish to devise or bequeath their property legally and securely, and prevent vexatious law-suits among their surviving relatives and friends. To which is added, a clear and distinct account of the law's disposal of the estates of those who die intestate, or without a will. Calculated for the use of the public in general, as well as the professors of the law. With ample instructions for obtaining probate of wills, and letters of administration. By Eardley Mitford, Esq. conveyancer

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    London: Printed for W. and J. Stratford, No. 112, Holborn-Hill, 1796 ; Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009

  16. Memoirs of the dying, or, a collection of wills, executed by several of the most eminent characters, of both sexes, now living, in Great-Britain and Ireland - [Second edition]

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    London: printed for G. Kearsley, No. 46, in Fleet-Street, 1784 ; Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009