The office and duty of executors, or, A treatise directing testators to form, and executors to perform their wills and testaments according to law / originally compiled by ... Thomas Wentworth ... ; to which is added, the supplement of H. Curson, Gent. many hundred references, by a barrister of Grey's Inn; and since revised and brought down to the present time, by Geo. Wilson.

London : Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall ... for T. Waller, W. Strahan, P. Uriel, B. Tovey, and W. Flexney, 1774.

16 unnumbered pages, 261 pages, 13 unnumbered pages, 222 pages, 48 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.

Hicks classification: T W4887 1774.

"What a man may give or dispose of by his will; or recvoations and new publications of wills. Of the state of things upon the testator's death; what may be done by an executor, &c. Of proving wills, and of the fees payable for the probates. What things shall come to executors by or after the testator's death. Cases between heir and executor; and of suits by or against them; and of the method of payment of the testator's debts. Of devastavit or wasting; and of an executor in his own wrong. Of married women and infant executors; of legacies; of executors of executors; of administrators."

English

December 11, 2006

Includes bibliographical references.