Excerpt from A Concise Treatise on the Law Relating to Legal Representatives, Real and Personal The object of this little work is to give, in as short a form as possible, a summary of the law of legal representatives as modified by the Land Transfer Act, 1897. In aiming at conciseness something' of compre hensiveness has of course had to be sacrificed, but it is hoped that little or nothing of real importance has been omitted. Branches of the subject, such as probate practice and death duties, have necessarily received but very inadequate notice in the present treatise. For the sake of brevity the time-honoured custom of prefixing in the goods of to probate cases has been departed from; and for a like reason only one case has generally been cited as an authority, but such case will generally be found to include others bearing on the same subject. The author desires to express his deep obligation to the classical work on Executors by the late Mr. Justice Williams. 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.