The Law's Disposal of a Person's Estate who Dies Without Will Or Testament: To which is Added the Disposal of a Person's Estate by Will and Testament : with an Explanation of the Mortmain Act

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R. Pheney, C. Hunter, J. and W.T. Clarke and H. Butterworth, 1823 - 442 pages

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Page 68 - ... or to charge any person upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage; or upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any interest...
Page 14 - ... accordingly, if the said being thereunto required, do render and deliver the said letters of administration (approbation of such testament being first had and made) in the said court, then this obligation to be void and of none effect, or else to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 376 - Signed, sealed published and declared by the above named James Miller to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses in the presence of the Testator.
Page 14 - ... and further do make or cause to be made a true and just account of his said administration, at or before the day...
Page 376 - Jersey, by his last will and testament in writing, bearing date on or about the...
Page 13 - The condition of this present obligation is such, that if the above bounden, John Field, who is appointed administrator on the estate of Solomon Field, late of said Attleborough, deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits of the said deceased...
Page 289 - The personal estate is the primary fund for the payment of debts and legacies.
Page 99 - The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor ; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living.
Page 390 - July, 1898, there shall be levied, collected and paid, for and in respect of the several bonds, debentures or certificates of stock and of indebtedness, and other documents, Instruments, matters and things...
Page 387 - Where the person or persons entitled to any beneficial interest in such property shall be the brother or sister of the father or mother or a descendant of a brother or sister of the father or mother of the decedent, at the rate of six per centum of the clear value of such interest in such property.

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