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  • Download Preface (243 KB)

  • Download Table of Contents (269 KB)

  • Download Table of Cases Cited (6.4 MB)

  • Download [Part I. Introduction.] Wills and Administration. Chapter I. Origin and Nature of Property and Succession. (704 KB)

  • Download Part II. Gifts Causa Mortis. Chapter II. GIfts Causa Mortis. (1.4 MB)

  • Download Part III. Wills. Chapter III. Errors in Wills. (156 KB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter IV. Definitions, Nature, and Kinds of Wills. (2.2 MB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter V. What May Be Disposed of By Will. (1.3 MB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter VI. Who May Make a Will. (2.7 MB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter VII. Error, Fraud, And Undue Influence. (3.1 MB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter VIII. Who May Take By Will. (1.6 MB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter IX. Formalities Required In Making Wills. (6.0 MB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter X. Revocation of Wills. (5.0 MB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter XI. Republication and Re-execution. (472 KB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter XII. By What Law Wills Are Governed. (1.1 MB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter XIII. Construction and Effect of Wills. (1.2 MB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter XIV. Ascertaining Beneficiaries and Their Respective Shares. (4.5 MB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter XV. Ascertaining What Property is Included. (3.6 MB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter XVI. Quantity or Duration of the Estate. (2.7 MB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter XVII. Time of Enjoyment of the Estate. (834 KB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter XVIII. Vesting and Divesting of Future Estates. (517 KB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter XIX. Estates Upon Condition. (4.5 MB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter XX. Lapse and Substitution. (2.8 MB)

  • Download [Part III.] Chapter XXI. Rights and Liabilities of Devisees and Legatees. (2.8 MB)

  • Download Part IV.--Intestate Succession. Chapter XXII. Descent and Distribution. (1.0 MB)

  • Download Part V.--Administration of Estates. Chapter XXIII. Jurisdiction of Court and Appointment of Officers. (1.3 MB)

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Description

“The present work was undertaken with the purpose of furnishing a substantial treatise on the whole law of succession in one volume. Within this scheme were comprehended the separate topics following: 1, gifts causa mortis, by reason of their resemblance to legacies; 2, wills, including all legal questions and doctrines peculiar to wills; 3, the substantive law of descent and distribution; and 4, the adjective law of succession, including the administration of both testate and intestate estates.”--Preface.

Publication Date

1904

Publisher

Callaghan & Company

City

Chicago

Keywords

Wills, Estate transfer, Succession, Gifts, Casebooks, University of Michigan Law School

Disciplines

Administrative Law | Agency | Estates and Trusts | Legal Education

A Treatise on the Law of Wills: Including Also Gifts Causa Mortis and a Summary of the Law of Descent, Distribution and Administration

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