Excerpt from Wills, Descent, and Administration Impressed by the excellence of the case system as a means of legal education, but convinced that no satisfactory adjustment of the con fliet between training and knowledge under existing time restrictions has yet been found, the General Editor takes pleasure in announcing a series of scholarly casebooks, prepared with special reference to the needs and limitations of the class - room, on the fundamental sub jects of legal education, which, through a judicious rearrangement of emphasis, shall provide adequate training combined with a thor ough knowledge of the general principles of the subject. The collee tion will develop the law historically and scientifically; English cases will give the origin and development of the law in England; Ameri can cases will trace its expansion and modification in America; note.c and annotations will suggest phases omitted in the printed case Cumulative references will be avoided, for the footnote may not hope to rival the digest. The 'law will thus be presented as an organic growth, and the necas sary connection between the past and the present will be obvious. 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.

Excerpt from Law of Wills and Administration The present volume contains the substance of my two former treatises on "Wills" and "Executors and Administrators," both of which have passed into three editions, now exhausted. This book is intended to supersede those two, by way of a new edition, so as to supply law students and members of the bench and bar with an elementary treatise for study and practical use, covering the whole jurisprudence of Wills and the Administration of Estates, testate or intestate, in England and the United States. For the citation of other series than the official reports, in cases of the former editions, I am indebted to Philip Nichols, Esq., author of a standard treatise on the "Power of Eminent Domain." The Table of Cases has been prepared by a member of the Boston bar, competent and experienced; though many other cases are cited in these pages by book and page only. In all other respects I have personally prepared the present volume, making a thorough revision of the former text and notes, while adding the latest cases upon a personal examination and comparison. 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.

The present volume contains the substance of my two former treatises on 'Wills' and 'Executors and administrators.'.

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Wills, Vol. 3: Including Also Gifts Causa and a by Summary of the Law of Descent, Distribution and Administration In discussing questions on which the statutes differ an attempt has been made to indicate what the statute of each state is, citing the latest compilation, and arranging the states by groups and in alphabetical order. Likewise, in considering the questions on which the courts are not agreed, the states have been tabulated in alphabetical order, and reference made to the principal and the latest decision in each state where decisions on the question are found. It is due my excellent friend, Professor Floyd R. Mech em, to say, that he encouraged me to undertake the pres ent work, often materially aided me in the execution of it, gave me free use of the material prepared by him while teaching these subjects at the University of Michi gan (much of which I have used), and that his scheme of treatment has been substantially followed throughout. 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.