Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law Relating to Executors and Administrators The statutory development of the probate law of the United States has rendered obsolete with us in some measure the probate law as administered in the ecclesiastical courts of England. As a matter of historical interpretation in every case, however, and in many cases of actual present authority, the English law is valuable. The statement of this law has been drawn from various authorities, including Blackstone, Swim burne, Wentworth, Toller, and Williams on Executors, as well as from reported cases. The author is conscious that in the execution of his plan there may be numerous imperfections, for which he asks the lenient judgment of a liberal profession. 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.