"Have You Made Your Will?" A Retired Solicitor. Testamentary Counsels, And Hints to Christians on the Right Distribution of Their Property by Will. Carefully Revised by a Member of the American Bar. Troy, NY: W. And H. Merriam, 1845. xii, 13-108 pp. 12mo. (6-1/4" x 4"). Contemporary cloth, blind panels..... More

An Entertaining Book on Wills Proffatt, John. The Curiosities and Law of Wills. San Francisco: Sumner, Whitney & Co., 1876. 216 pp. 12mo. (6-1/2" x 4-1/4"). Original cloth, gilt title to front board and spine. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and corners, moderate toning to..... More

The Case that Established the Concept of Partial Insanity in English Law Nicholl, Sir John [1759-1838]. Haggard, John [1794-1856], Editor. A Report of the Judgment of Dew v. Clark and Clark, Delivered by the Honourable Sir John Nicholl, In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Eastern Term, 1826. Edited, By Permission..... More

1854 Interrogatory Concerning the Mental Fitness of the Decedent in an Inheritance Case [Manuscript]. [Wills]. [Mental Fitness]. Lewis, Garrett. Skinner, Dr. W.C. [1854 Legal Interrogatory of a North Carolina Medical Doctor W.C. Skinner Concerning the Illness, Mental Fitness and Death of Garrett Lewis of Chester County, Pennsylvania]. [West Chester, Chester..... More

Gilbert on Wills (and Related Topics) Gilbert, Sir Geoffrey [1674-1726]. The Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills To Which is Added, Choice Precedents of Wills. [London]: Printed by Henry Lintot, 1756. viii, [12], 254, [38] pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Contemporary calf, rebacked in period style, blind rules to..... More

Drafting Wills in Eighteenth-Century England [Richardson, Robert]. The Law of Testaments and Last Wills. Containing All That is Necessary to be Known and Practised by Testators and Their Executors, Administrators, &c. As Also, What Relates to the Distribution of the Estates of Intestates. In the Following Particulars. The Different Kinds..... More

Classic Treatise on Fideicommissum Pellegrini, Marcantonio [1530-1616]. Lonigius, Gasparus, Editor. De Fideicommissis Praesertim Universalibus, Tractatus Frequentissimus, M. Antonii Peregrini Patavini. Omnibus tam in Scholis, Qiuam in Causarum Foro Versantibus Admodum Utilis, Ac Pernecessarius. Ab Eodem Ultima hac Post Germanicam Editione, Summa Diligentia Recognitus, & Compluribus Additamentis Recenter Adauctus & Illustratus..... 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

[Nichols, John; Richard Gough]. A Collection of all the Wills, Now Known to Be Extant, of the Kings and Queens of England, Princes and Princesses of Wales, and every Branch of the Blood Royal, from the Reign of William the Conqueror, to that of Henry the Seventh Exclusive: With Explanatory..... 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

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

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..... 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