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Recent Patterns Of Testate Succession In The United States And England, Olin L. Browder Jr. May 1969

Recent Patterns Of Testate Succession In The United States And England, Olin L. Browder Jr.

Michigan Law Review

This study purports to be in part a comparison of American and English testamentary practices. The virtual absence in England of estate records as we know them imposed limitations on the attainment of this objective. For present purposes, data concerning English practices were derived almost entirely from one hundred English wills selected at random from those filed during the year 1963 in the Principal Probate Registry in London. To the extent that these wills came from all over England and Wales, they can be regarded as representative of English practices generally. But the much smaller size of the sample in …


An Unprincipled Decision On A Will, Alan Watson Feb 1969

An Unprincipled Decision On A Will, Alan Watson

Scholarly Works

In this article Professor Alan Watson reviews the decision of Alfenus from Ancient Rome (D.28.5.45 Alfenus 5 dig).