A Treatise on the Law of Wills. Second edition.
Schouler on Wills: A Treatise of "Undoubted Merits" Schouler, James, [1839-1920]. A Treatise on the Law of Wills. Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1892. Octavo (9" x 6"). lxii, 731 pp. Contemporary calf with stamped insignia of "Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow" to front board. Rebacked with later law calf, red and black lettering pieces to spine. Worn with some rubbing to extremities, a few stains to boards. Interior clean. A good copy. $250. * Second edition. Schouler was a leading authority on family and estate law. His treatise on wills was conceived as a companion volume to his Treatise on Executors and Administrators (1883). Long a standard text, it went through four editions, the final appearing in 1900. In a review of a later edition W.R. Vance attributed the "favorable reception" and "undoubted merits" of the first edition to its scholarly depth, accuracy and clarity. In 1915 Schouler merged both treatises into a two-volume work entitled The Law of Wills, Executors and Administrators. W.R. Vance, Yale Law Journal 33 (1923) 453.
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