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 about Quaestiones Familiares: Pragmaticis Percommodae [Bound with] In

A Durable Concept in Roman Law Camarela, Francisco. De Legatis et Singulis Rebus per Fideicommissum Relictis. Libris Quindecim Exaratum in Foro, Et Scholis Professoribus Perutile, Ac Necessarium, Cum Indice Locupletissimo, Collegii Iudicium Vincentiae Cura, & Aere Editum. Venice: Apud Abundium Menafolium, 1681. [xl], 628, [68] pp. Main text in parallel... More about De Legatis et Singulis Rebus per Fideicommissum Relictis

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 about Tractatus de Testamentis, De Feudis, De Donationibus, De Iure

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 about The Law of Devises, Revocations, and Last Wills To Which is Added

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 about 1854 Legal Interrogatory of a North Carolina Medical Doctor

"The Difficulty is to Find Out What a Man Intended After He is Dead" Nelson, William [d. 1653]. Lex Testamentaria: Or, A Compendious System of All the Laws of England, As Well Before the Statute of Henry VIII. As Since, Concerning Last Wills and Testaments. In Which Are Collected, All... More about Lex Testamentaria, Or, A Compendious System of All the Laws of

Notable Treatise on the Roman Law Concerning Property Left to a Husband or Wife Peck, Pieter [1529-1589]. De Testamentis Coniugum Libri Quinque; Adiectae Sunt Summaria Indicesq[ue] duo Locupletissimi, Argumentorum Unus, Alter Verborum, Rerum, Sententiarumq[ue] Insignium. Cologne: Apud Ioannem Gymnicum, 1585. [xvi], 514, [88] pp. Octavo (6-1/2" x 4"). Recent polished... More about De Testamentis Coniugum Libri Quinque; Adiectae Sunt Summaria

Antebellum Georgia Treatise: Includes Sections on Slaves and "Negroes" Reese, William M. [1818-1899]. A Manual for Ordinaries, Executors, Administrators, And Guardians, In the State of Georgia. Embracing the Constitutional and Statute Law of the State, Familiar Principles of the Common Law, Decisions of the Supreme Court, And a Great Variety... More about A Manual for Ordinaries, Executors, Administrators, And Guardians

"Everything to My Wife" Sadler, Walter Dendy, After. James Dobie, Engraver. The New Will: "Everything to My Wife Absolutely." London, Paris & New York: Rafael Tuck & Sons Ltd, [c. 1894]. Attractively glazed and double-matted 19" x 16" hand-colored etching in handsome 29" x 26" wooden frame, small brass plaque... More about The New Will: "Everything to My Wife Absolutely"

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 about A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Willes, Very Profitable

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 about The Deputy Commissary's Guide Within the Province of Maryland

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 about Testamentsauslegung im Romischen Recht

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 about Studies in Wills: Romance and Interest of An Old Story