First Edition of the First Standard Treatise on Wills Swinburne, Henry [1560?-1623]. A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Willes, Very Profitable to be Understoode of All the Subjects of This Realme of England, (Desirous to Know, Whether, Whereof, And How, They May Make Their Testaments: And by What Meanes... More
Financial Consequences of Estates Forfeited by the Jacobites [Dalrymple, Sir David (c.1665-c.1721)]. The Laws and Judicatures of Scotland, Vindicated from the Calumnies and False Reasonings Contain'd in a Late Pamphlet Intitled, The Case of the Forfeited Estates in Scotland, Consider'd: In a Letter to a Noble L-d. Edinburgh: Pirnted [sic]..... More
Historic Study of Gavelkind Somner, William [1598-1669]. A Treatise of Gavelkind, Both Name and Thing. Shewing the True Etymologie and Derivation of the One, The Nature, Antiquity, And Original of the Other. With Sundry Emergent Observations, Both Pleasant and Profitable to be Known of Kentish-Men and Others, Especially Such as... More
Copy of the First American Treatise on Wills that Belonged to an Important Early Illinois Statesman Vallette, Elie. [Sparrow, Thomas (1746?-1780?), Engraver]. The Deputy Commissary's Guide Within the Province of Maryland, Together with Plain and Sufficient Directions for Testators to Form, and Executors to Form Their Wills and Testaments, For... More
![Extricatio Labyrinthi de Eo, Quod Interest [Bound With Another Work]. Charles Du Moulin, Carolus Molinaeus.](/pictures/thumb/59553.JPG?v=1517389344)
Two Well-Preserved Studies by a Notable French Humanist Jurist Du Moulin, Charles [1500-1566]. Extricatio Labyrinthi de Eo, Quod Interest: Cum Nova & Analytica Explicatione, & Conciliatione Legum Omnium Materiae, Multis Iam Saeculis Densissimis Errorum, & Perplexitatum Tenebris Implicatissimae, Praecipue l. Unicae. C. De Senten. Quae Pro eo Quod Interest. Lyons... More
For Sale: New Hampshire Farm, Saw Mill and Pasture [Broadside]. [Estates]. Brown, W[illiam] M., Executor. Executor's Sale, Valuable Real Estate at Auction!. Concord, NH: Steam Printing Works of McFarland & Jenks, 1853. 20-1/2" x 12-1/2" broadside. Light toning, some crinkling and edgewear with small tears and chips, faint vertical and... More
![Quaestiones Familiares: Pragmaticis Percommodae [Bound with] In. Agostino Bero, Francesco Marzari.](/pictures/thumb/59157.JPG?v=1517389340)
Two Scarce Sixteenth-Century Italian Works on Roman and Canon Law Bero, Agostino [1474-1554]. Thomasius, Joannes, Editor. Quaestiones Familiares: Pragmaticis Percommodae. Venice: Apud Io. Antonium Bertanum, 1574. [lxxii], 445, [3] pp. [Bound with] Marzari, Francesco. In Materiam Fideicomissariam Epitome Francisci Marzarii Vicentini Iurisconsulti ac in Rot. Genuens. Bononiens. Florentina Quondam Auditoris... More
Preparing to File with the Surrogate's Office Surrogate's Office, Hudson, New York. Directions to Executors and Administrators on Taking Inventory. Hudson: [Surrogate's Office], 1872. 13 pp. 12mo. (5-3/4" x 3-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Light soiling and minor edgewear, early owner signature to front wrapper. Light browning to text... More
![A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Wils (sic) [Wills]. Henry Swinburne.](/pictures/thumb/57985.JPG?v=1517389326)
The First Standard English Treatise on Wills Swinburne, Henry [1560?-1623]. A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Wils [sic], Very Profitable to be Understood of All the Subjects of This Realme of England, (Desirous to Know, Whether, Whereof, And How, They May Make Their Testaments: And by What Meanes the... More
An Important Study of Inheritance and Succession in Roman Law Bluntschli, Johann Caspar (Kaspar) [1808-1881]. Entwicklung der Erbfolge Gegen den Letzten Willen nach Romischen Recht mit bes. Rucksicht auf die Novelle 115. Bonn: Bei Adolph Marcus, 1829. x, 310 pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Original marbled publisher boards, paper title... More
Popular Sixteenth-Century Study of Topics in Roman Law Claro, Giulio [1525-1575]. Tractatus de Testamentis, De Feudis, De Donationibus, De Iure Emphiteotico: Nunc ab Omnibus Erroribus Maxima Diligentia Emendati: Cum Summariis, & Repertoriis Omnium Quaestionum, Ac Incidenter Dictorum. Venice: Apud Franciscum Laurentinum, 1566. 8, [32], 243 ff. Octavo (6" x 4")... More
A "Profound" Scholar of Estates and Real-Property Preston, Richard [1768-1850]. An Essay on the Quantity and Quality of Estates, With More Immediate Reference to the Law of Merger. Corrected with Additions. Philadelphia: John S. Littell, 1843. xiv, 244 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-1/4"). Recent cloth, lettering piece to spine, endpapers... More
Uncommon Innovative Treatise Dealing With Deeds Cornish, William Floyer [c.1801-1830]. Horsey, George [1819-1899], Editor. Cornish's Treatise on Purchase Deeds, of Freehold Estates, And Incidentally of Leasehold Property, With Precedents and Practical Notes. Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson & Co., 1856. xxiii, [25]-172, 4 pp. Star-paged. Includes four-page publisher catalogue. Octavo... More
Historic Study of Gavelkind Somner, William [1598-1669]. A Treatise of Gavelkind, Both Name and Thing. Shewing the True Etymologie and Derivation of the One, the Nature, Antiquity, and Original of the Other. With Sundry Emergent Observations, Both Pleasant and Profitable to be Known of Kenting-Men and Others, Especially Such as... More
Jarman, Thomas. Treatise on Wills Eighth Edition Edited by Raymond Jennings. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1951. Reprint. W.S. Hein, 2000. 3 Vols. Cloth. New. $319. * "This is by far the most voluminous and complete treatise on the subject of wills extant.": Marvin, Legal Bibliography 420. Thomas Jarman was an... More
An Authority on the Laws of Ohio Giauque, Florien [1843-1921]. The Settlement of Estates of Deceased Persons, Including the Subjects of Wills, Executors, Administrators, Testamentary Trustees, Dower and Partition, and Other Matters Connected with Such Estates in Ohio with Numerous Notes, Forms and Practical Suggestions. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company... More
Mucklow, Walter. Real Estate Accounts. Treating of the Proper Classification, Construction, and Operation of Accounts for the Real Estate Business, including Forms. New York: The Ronald Press, 1917. xv, 357 pp. Original half-calf. Rubbed, head of spine chipped. $10. More
Chalfant, Ella. A Goodly Heritage. Earliest Wills on an American Frontier. University of Pittsburgh Press, [1955]. xii, 239 pp. Orig. red gilt lettered cloth in a worn dust jacket. Very good. $45. * A study of the wills of the men and women who first settled in Pittsburgh, "the Gateway to the West." More
Rocher, Ludo, Editor and Translator. Jimutavahana's Dayabhaga: The Hindu Law of Inheritance in Bengal. With an Introduction and Notes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Stamped cloth. New. $72. More
The "Romance" of Wills [Wills]. Studies in Wills: Romance and Interest of An Old Story. Baltimore: Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company, [1926]. [iv], 25 pp. Color frontispiece. Black-and white plates. Original cloth, light shelfwear and soiling, binding slightly cocked. Light foxing to endleaves, internally clean. $15. * A charming history... More
The "Romance" of Wills [Wills]. Studies in Wills: Romance and Interest of An Old Story. Baltimore: Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company, [1926]. [iv], 25 pp. Color frontispiece. Black-and white plates. Cloth very good in moderately worn and soiled dust jacket. $15. * A charming history of wills from antiquity to the present. More
Wieling, Hans Josef. Testamentsauslegung im Romischen Recht. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1972. 286 pp. Softbound, light shelfwear, front hinge starting. Bookplate of A. Arthur Schiller to front pastedown, occasional annotations and underlining. $45. * A title in the series Munchener Beitrage zur Papyrusforschung und Antiken Rechtsgeschichte. Abraham Arthur Schiller [1902-1977] was... More
Marshall, George W. [1839-1905]. A Handbook to the Ancient Courts of Probate and Depositories of Wills. London: H. Cox, 1895. vi, 75 pp. Original cloth, worn, stained, spine almost perished, text detached but complete, internally clean. Ex-library. Bookplate to front pastedown. $45. * An attempt to form a calendar of... More