Excerpt from A Treatise Upon the Law of Legacies, 1799 The principal Part of this Treatife is compiled from Notes colleeted during the Author's Gourfe of Reading as a Student he has been indqced to add to, methodize, and publiih them, under the Idea, that as no Book within his Recollec tion has fully and fingly treated upon the Sub jeet, the prefent Undertaking might not be altogether unferviceable to the Profeflion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.