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Orphans Legacy: Or, A Testamentary abridgment. In Three Parts. I. Of Last-Wills and Testaments. II. Of Executors and Administrators. III. Of Legacies and Devises. wherein the most material points of law relating to that subject are succinctly treated as well according to the common and temporal, as ecclesiastical and civil laws of this realm : illustrated with a great variety of select cases in the law of both professions, as well delighted in the theory, as useful for the practice of all such as study the one, or are either active or passive in the other
by Godolphin, John
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Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires ..., for Christopher Wilkinson, 1685. First Thus. Leather Binding. Very Good. The Third, much enlarged edition of this important legal reference pertaining to wills and testaments. Bound in period brown calf, expertly rebacked in brown calf with raised bands, red morocco label, gilt rules at head and foot, and floral tooling in blind, new endpapers (boards rubbed with some restoration to corners; first 4 leaves with closed internal tears; title page has an old paper repair on the verso; some browning and foxing to text), Notes: Pages 457-458 omitted in numbering. Description: 4 preliminary leaves, 478 (i.e. 476), [20] pages. Wing G948.
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- Orphans Legacy: Or, A Testamentary abridgment. In Three Parts. I. Of Last-Wills and Testaments. II. Of Executors and Administrators. III. Of Legacies and Devises. wherein the most material points of law relating to that subject are succinctly treated as well according to the common and temporal, as ecclesiastical and civil laws of this realm : illustrated with a great variety of select cases in the law of both professions, as well delighted in the theory, as useful for the practice of all such as study the one, or are either active or passive in the other
- Author
- Godolphin, John
- Format/Binding
- Leather Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires ..., for Christopher Wilkinson
- Date Published
- 1685
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- 0.00 lbs
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