Cahiers de Droit Fiscal International. Studies on International Fiscal Law, Volume LXXb, International Double Taxation of Inheritances and Gifts
International Fiscal Association, Rotterdam, 1985.
In English, French, and German
Printed wraps, a clean ex-library copy; 574 pages
international law, Wills, taxation
Graham, Willard J. and Wilber G. Katz
Accounting in Law Practice. Second Edition
Callaghan and Company, Chicago, 1938.
Worn and marked; a usable copy only
Accounting, CHILE, Wills
Lovelass, Peter
The Law's Disposal of a Person's Estate Who Dies Without Will or Testament [etc.]. Eighth Edition [bound with] An Abstract of, and Observations on, the Statutes Imposing Duty on Administrations, Probates of Wills, Property Disposed of by Will [etc.]
Printed for the Author; and sold by T.N. Longman [etc.], London, 1796.
A rare edition of the first work, which became the most popular of its kind for over a half-century, very accessible--"a good straightforward account"--bound with the equally rare and only edition of Lovelass's complementary "Abstract"
Contemporary sheep, quite worn, joints cracked, the rear board loosening, a usable copy; four copies of each work in ESTC
Leach, William
First A Safegard and a Stay for Sheriffs, Bayliffs, Serjeants at Mace, and such Officers. Or Their Well doings Justified, and their Evill actings Abolished . . . Thirdty [sic] And for Honest Executors and Administrators from paying [etc.]
Printed by E. Cotes, in the Year 1652, London, 1652.
A rare tract written by the Middle Templar whose works "together outlined a programme for the reform of the entire English legal system", here focusing on local officials, executors, administrators, and maritime law; one copy in ESTC, none in the UK
Recent 1/4 vellum interleaved, repairs to the lower margins, the text legible, with the Fairfax of Cameron bookplate; the Taussig copy
legal reform, sheriffs, Wills, maritime law
Swinburne, Henry
A Treatise of Testaments and Last Wills, Fit to be understood by all men . . . Compiled out of the Laws Ecclesiasticall, Civill and Canon, as also out of the Common Laws, Customes and Statutes of this Realme. The Fourth Edition [etc.]. Wing S6261
Printed by George Sawbridge [and two others], London, 1677.
The first work on the English law of wills, and more broadly the first work written by an Englishman on English canon law, praised by J.H. Baker as "a model of clarity and scientific technique" and by David Yale as "a full and accomplished treatise"
Contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, with the bookplates of Sir John Swinburne [a descendant?] and Thomas Walker of Doctors Commons; the Taussig copy
Advanced Estate Planning and Administration Seminar
Virginia State Bar, 1980.
Printed wraps, spiral bound; approximately 250 pages
Wills, taxation, Probating
Meriton, George
The Touchstone of Wills, Testaments, and Administrations. Being a Compendium of Cases & Resolutions Touching the same. Carefully collected out of the Ecclesiastical, Civil and Canon Laws [etc.]. Third Edition. Wing M1813. 12mo
Printed for W. Leak, A. Roper, F. Tyton [and six others], London, 1674.
The last edition of the first general, introductory guidebook to the English law of wills, designed for the layperson (as Swinburne's treatise is not), written by the North Riding attorney perhaps best known for his poem "In Praise of York-shire Ale"
Original unlettered sheep, very worn and quite browned, the margins cut close (no text affected); a usable copy only
The Speeches of Isaeus in Causes Concerning the Law of Succession to Property at Athens, with a Prefatory Discourse, Notes Critical and Historical, and a Commentary
Printed by J. Nichols, For E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, London, 1779.
Only edition of Jones' first treatise on law, praised by Burke and Gibbon and establishing his reputation as a legal scholar, providing the first English translation of Isaeus, "the first master of strict forensic argument"
Modern 1/4 calf, some foxing and embrowning, a good copy; with eleven plates, one folding
Wills, GREECE, ancient law
Hale, Matthew
De Successionibus apud Anglos: Or, A Treatise of Hereditary Descents, Shewing The Rise, Progress and Successive Alterations thereof. And Also the Laws of Descent as they are now in use. Wing H236
Printed and are to be Sold by A. Baldwin in Warwick-lane, London, 1699.
Real Property, Wills
Chase, Horace
The New-Hampshire Probate Directory: Containing All the Statute laws Relating to Courts of Probate and Proceedings Therein: With a Complete Collection of Probate Forms [etc.]. Second edition
Published by G. Parker Lyon, Concord, 1854.
Contemporary sheep, rebacked; a good, clean copy
New Hampshire, Probating, Wills
Gardiner, Robert
Ars Clericalis: The Art of Conveyancing Explained. Being a Collection gathered . . . out of the many Books of the Law. Wherein the Nature and Effect of such Deeds and Instruments by which Lands are Conveyed . . . are clearly demonstrated [etc]. Wing G237
Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins [etc.], London, 1690.
First edition of Gardiner's introductory primer, devoted principally to how lands are conveyed, focussing on fifteen separate methods, including bargain and sale, feoffments, fines, gifts, grants, leases, surrenders, and wills, inter alia
Contemporary sheep, the spine quite rubbed, tears to six leaves, three with small loss, front hinge strengthened, with the half title; a working copy
conveyancing, Wills
Palmer, John?
The Attorney and Agent's New Table of Costs In the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas: Containing The Fees and Disbursements on the Part of the Plaintiff and Defendant, in the Prosecution and Defence of Actions real, personal, and mixed [etc.]. 2d ed
Printed by Gilbert and Plummer; and sold by T. Whieldon [etc.], London, 1787.
A rare edition of an enormously successful work, the first to explain to a practitioner how to prepare a bill of costs, treating of patents, bankruptcy, probate, criminal proceedings, and the exchequer inter alia; no copy in ESTC, one in OCLC
Original paper backed boards, rubbed, the joints cracking but holding, clean and unsophisticated in original state; the Taussig copy
courts, habeas corpus, criminal law, patents, bankruptcy, Wills, Doctors Commons
The Law's Disposal of a Person's Estate Who Dies Without Will or Testament . . . To Which Is Added The Disposal of a Person's Estate, By Will and Testament; Containing An Explanation of the Mortmain-Act [etc.]. The Seventh Edition, with large Additions
Printed for the Author, and sold by Whieldon [and others] [etc.], London, 1792.
An early edition of a work becoming the most popular of its kind for over a half-century, very accessible--"a good straightforward account"--expanded from its initial purpose (treating only of intestacy) to those with the foresight to draw wills
Contemporary calf, lightly rubbed, the joints just cracking, but quite firm, a very good clean copy
Casner, A. James and Robert A. Stein
Estate Planning Under the Tax Reform Act of 1976. Second Edition
West Publishing Company, St. Paul, 1978.
Printed wraps, quite sound; 456 pages
taxation, Wills
A Treatise of Testaments and Last Wills, Compiled out of the Laws Ecclesiastical, Civil and Canon, as also out of the Common Law, Customs and Statutes of this Realm. The Whole digested into Seven Parts [etc.]. Sixth Edition. Folio
Printed by Henry Lintot . . . and sold by S. Birt, London, 1742.
Contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, Cornwell House circular stamps on the front endpapers, else a very good, tall, clean copy
Grimke, John Faucheraud]
The Duty of Executors and Administrators, Pointing Out, in a Plain and Familiar Manner, How Executors Are to Proceed . . . To which are prefixed . . . Mr. Blackstone's Rules for Interpreting Wills and Deeds [etc.]. Not in Eller; Cohen 4614
Printed by T. and J. Swords, No. 99 Pearl-street, New-York, 1797.
Only edition of a very early American work on wills and estates, one of only a few published in the 18th century, and the first to be more than a mere handbook, written by Grimke while a South Carolina Supreme Court Justice; with the two plates
As issued, unbound, browning, uncut, errata defective
trusts and estates, South Carolina, Wills
Anno XXXII. Henrici Octavi [1540] . . . the actes folowing by his highnesse, with thassent of the lordes spiritual and temporal, and the comons assembled in the sayd parliament, haue bene established, ordeyned and enacted. STC 9402 [including this copy]
T. Powell?, London.
The legislation of the Parliament which included the Statute of Wills, "one of the most significant pieces of all English law", comprehensively restoring the power to devise real property and mitigating the effects of the Statute of Uses of 1536
19th century cloth, light browning, else quite well preserved, with the bookplate of Edwin Freshfield on the front pastedown; the Taussig copy
Acts, Ecclesiastical Law, witchcraft, Wills
Fearne, Charles
An Essay on the Learning of Contingent Remainders and Executory Devises [with] Copies of Opinions Ascribed to Eminent Council [etc.]. The Fifth Edition, with Notes and Comments, By John Joseph Powell, Esq; Barrister at Law [etc.]. Two Volumes [Complete]
[1] H. Watt [2] John Exshaw and John Rice, Dublin, 1794-1796.
The rare, final Irish edition of a truly modern legal treatise, a "classic [written by] one of the great real property lawyers of [the 18th] century", in Holdsworth's words; one copy of volume one in the British Isles in ESTC, none of volume two
Contemporary sheep, quite rubbed and scraped, but sound, light browning and foxing; Thomas Settle's copy with his ownership signatures and bookstickers
Probating, Wills
Stewart, Julie (ed.)
Working Papers on Inheritance in Zimbabwe [Working Paper No.5]
Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Project, Harare, 1992.
Original oversized printed illustrated pink wraps, some browning, but well-preserved, 124 pages, single-spaced typescript
AFRICA, Wills, Zimbabwe
Estate and Gift Tax Changes under 1976 Tax Reform
Commerce Clearing House, Chicago, 1976.
Stapled wraps, faded but quite sound; 96 pages
Dundonnell Cause. Report of the Trial by Jury, Thomas Mackenzie against Robert Roy, Esq. W.S.
Printed for Daniel Lizars, at . . . the New North Briton [etc.], Edinburgh, 1830.
A tribute to the talents of Henry Cockburn, who secured a Scotch verdict for his client against charges that he had swindled an estate from the weak-minded Mackenzie; with Cockburn's jury address and the exchanges between counsel well-reported
Modern 1/4 calf, somewhat dusty, else a good, sound copy
SCOTLAND, trials, insanity, Wills
Vaughan Williams, Edward
A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators. In Two Volumes
Saunders and Benning, Law Booksellers . . . 43, Fleet Street, London, 1832.
First edition of Vaughan Williams' classic treatise, still in print, and a "great work" in Holdsworth's words, further observing that "[t]he author shows a mastery of all the authorities on his subject, from the sixteenth century onwards"
Contemporary calf, rebacked, quite rubbed and scraped and some foxing, yet a good usable set
Of Last Wills and Testaments: A Common-Law Treatise, Containing Several Rules for the Construction of last Wills . . . also of Contingent Remainders, and of Executory Devises . . . Of Perpetuities . . . And of Revocations, Codicils, and Nuncupative Wills
Only edition of an early work on the English law of wills, seemingly only the second devoted essentially entirely to wills and their construction, including devises, both conditional and executory, and legacies; uncommon, eight copies in ESTC
Contemporary unlettered sheep, very rubbed and scraped, top of spine chipped, some browning and staining, and a bit strained; a usable copy only
Three Learned Readings Made upon three very usefull Statutes: The First, By . . . Sir James Dyer [of Wills] . . . The Second, By Sir Iohn Brograve [Concerning Jointures] . . . The Third, By Thomas Risden [of Forcible Entry] [etc.]. Wing D2929
Printed for W. Lee, M. Walbancke, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, London, 1648.
Only edition of each reading (all 16th century) and the only instance in which several Inns of Court readings were jointly published, the first (by James Dyer) recently termed by Dr. Baker "the distinguished exposition of the Statute of Wills"
Modern 1/4 calf, definite browning and foxing, particularly to the title, some leaves chipped (legibility preserved), just usable; the Taussig copy
Inns of Court, Readings, Wills
Wentworth, Thomas
The Office and Duty of Executors. Or, A Treatise of Wils and Executors, directed to Testators in the choice of their Executors, and Contrivance of their Wils. With direction for Executors in the Execution of of[sic] their Office [etc.]. 4th ed. Wing W1360B
Printed by T. Maxey, for Matthew Walbank . . . in Holborn, London, 1656.
A rare, early edition of the first treatise on executors written from a common law (as opposed to an ecclesiastical law) standpoint, praised by Holdsworth ("a good and popular book") and published well into the 19th century; four copies in ESTC
Contemporary blind ruled unlettered sheep, quite rubbed and marked, top of spine just chipped, some browning, yet clean and usable; the Taussig copy
A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Willes . . . Compiled of such lawes Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill, as be not repugnant to the lawes, customes, or statutes of this Realme, nor derogatorie to the Prerogative Royall [etc.]. S.T.C. 23547; Beale T498
Printed by John Windet, London, 1591.
First edition of the first work on the English law of wills, and the first work by an Englishman on English canon law, praised by J.H. Baker as "a model of clarity and scientific technique" and by David Yale as "a full and accomplished treatise"
Modern dark brown calf, gilt-lettered, occasional light browning, else quite crisp and well preserved, without the errata leaf; the Taussig copy
Wills, Ecclesiastical Law, canon law
Robinson, Gerald J.
Estate Planning Under Tax Reform, Forms, Practice and Tax Analysis
Law Journal Press, N.p., 1977.
Ring-binder, quite sturdy; 440 loose-leaf pages
Wills, taxation
Rocher, Ludo (ed. and trans.)
Jimutavahana's Dayabhaga, The Hindu Law of Inheritance in Bengal.
Oxford University Press, New York, 2002.
Original blue cloth, a very good copy
INDIA, hindu law, Wills
Whitelock, Dorothy (ed.)
Anglo-Saxon Wills
At the University Press, Cambridge, 1930.
Miss Whitelock's exemplary edition of the bulk of the Anglo-Saxon wills which have come down to us, with the Anglo-Saxon text and English translation on facing pages, accompanied by her extensive notes; Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
Original cloth, showing a bit of wear, in a worn and faded dustjacket
Anglo-Saxon law, Wills
Spring, Eileen
Law, Land, and Family, Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1993.
Wills, Real Property
Gardy, Frederic
Bibliographie des Oeuvres Theologiques, Litteraires, Historiques at Juridiques de Theodore de Beze
Librairie E. Droz, Geneve, 1960.
Wills, FRANCE, Bibliography
Straus, David A.
Faith-Based Estate Planning, Our Values and Valuables
E.T. Nedder Publishing, Tucson, 2008.
Original illustrated boards, a very good copy
Proffatt, John
The Curiosities and Law of Wills
William S. Hein, Buffalo, 1989.
Burns, Robert I.
Jews in the Notarial Culture, Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350
jewish law, notaries, SPAIN, MEDIEVAL, Wills
Hotson, Leslie
I, William Shakespeare, Do Appoint Thomas Russell, Esquire . . .
A very good copy in a slightly worn dustjacket
biography, Wills, 16TH CENTURY
Powers, David S.
Studies in Qur'an and Hadith: The Formation of the Islamic Law of Inheritance
islamic law, Wills
Schwartz, Bernard [et al.]
Thomas Jefferson and Bolling v. Bolling, Law and the Legal Profession in Pre-Revolutionary America
Huntington Library, San Marino, 1997.
biography, trials, 18TH CENTURY, Wills, colonies
Honigmann, E.A.J. and Susan Brock (eds.)
Playhouse Wills 1558-1642, An Edition of Wills by Shakespeare and His Contemporaries in the London Theatre
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1993.
Law and Literature, Wills, Shakespeare
Enhiridion [sic] Clericale: Or, A Manual of proper and useful Precedents in Clerkship, Relating to Contracts and Agreements, Obligations, Recognizances and Statutes . . . With Directions to sue out Fines, Recoveries, and to the Outlawry [etc.]. 2d Ed
Printed by the Assignee of Edw. Sayer . . . for John Walthoe [&c], London, 1712.
The rare final edition of Gardiner's omnium gatherum, conceivably designed to summarize in one volume ("multum in parvo") his massive 'Intructor Clericalis', treating of dozens of subjects and providing precedents for use in all the royal courts
Contemporary calf, the spine a bit marked and its bottom just chipped, light browning, else well preserved with the advertising leaf; the Taussig copy
Forms & Form Books, contracts, landlord and tenant, legal dictionaries, Wills, Ecclesiastical Law
Godolphin, John
The Orphans Legacy: or A Testamentary Abridgment . . . I. Of Last-Wills and Testaments. II. Of Executors and Administrators. III. Of Legacies and Devises . . . according to the . . . Ecclesiastical and Civil Laws of the Realm [etc.]. 2d Edition. Wing G947
Printed for Chr. Wilkinson at the Black-Boy . . . in Fleetstreet, London, 1677.
The second, expanded edition of one of the two pre-eminent, early works on the English law of wills and on ecclesiastical law, paired by Holdsworth with Swinburne's treatise as "the two most famous books contributed by civilians" on the subjects
Contemporary unlettered calf, somewhat rubbed and some lightish browning, else clean and usable with occasional annotations; the Taussig copy
Ap-Robert, John
The Younger Brother His Apologie, or a Fathers Free Power disputed, for the disposition of his Lands . . . to his Sonne . . . as right Reason, the Lawes of God and Nature, the Civill, Canon, and Municipall Laws of this Kingdome doe command. S.T.C. 717
Printed by Iohn Lichfield for Edward Forrest, Oxford, 1635.
An uncommon reissue of a work appearing through most of the 17th century, contending that the law of primogeniture may (and should) be departed from where family circumstances so dictate or a father so wishes; one copy in North America in ESTC
Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered, the title somewhat browned, else well preserved with ample margins; the Taussig copy
JAPAN, Real Property, Wills, Family Law
Roper, R.S. Donnison
A Treatise upon the Law of Legacies
Printed by John Exshaw, 98, Grafton-Street, Dublin, 1800.
The rare, only Dublin edition of the first work of Roper (a Gray's Inn barrister), "commended by Lord Eldon, Story, and Kent", and seemingly the first treatise devoted exclusively to legacies at English law; no copy in ESTC or COPAC
Contemporary calf, very light browning and foxing, else quite well preserved and with the half title; the Taussig copy
The Office and Duty of Executors: Or, A Treatise directing Testators to Form, and Executors to Perform their Wills and Testaments according to Law . . . And now enlarged with a Supplement . . . by H. Curson of the Inner Temple
Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling for [six others], London, 1720.
An early seventeenth century edition of the first treatise on executors written from a common law (as opposed to an ecclesiastical law) standpoint, praised by Holdsworth ("a good and popular book") and published well into the 19th century
Contemporary calf, rebacked, somewhat rubbed, else well preserved with ample margins and the final advertising leaf; the Taussig copy