LEGAL RECREATIONS.
VOL. II.
Curiosities of Wills.
THE
CURIOSITIES
AND
LAW OF WILLS.
BY
JOHN PROFFATT, LL.B.,
Counsellor-at-law, author of “Woman before the Law.”
| “Wills, and the construction of them, do more perplex a man than any other matter; and to make a certain construction of them exceedeth jurisprudentum artem.”—Coke. |
SAN FRANCISCO:
Sumner Whitney & Co.
1876.
COPYRIGHT 1876,
BY
JOHN PROFFATT.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| Introduction | 9 | |
| CHAPTER I. | ||
| Origin and History of Wills | 29 | |
| CHAPTER II. | ||
| Form and Requisites of Wills | 41 | |
| Section 1. | Nuncupative Wills. | |
| 2. | Written Wills. | |
| CHAPTER III. | ||
| Testamentary Capacity | 68 | |
| Section 1. | Incapacity as to Age. | |
| 2. | Physical or Mental Incapacity. | |
| 3. | Senile Dementia. | |
| 4. | Coverture. | |
| CHAPTER IV. | ||
| Legacies | 93 | |
| Section 1. | As to their Quality. | |
| 2. | Legacies Vested or Contingent. | |
| 3. | Conditional Legacies. | |
| 4. | Payment of Legacies. | |
| 5. | The Person who may take. | |
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