Excerpt from Principles of the Law of Wills: With Selected Cases It would be hardly justifiable to express a conviction that this book will prove as useful to practising lawyers as to the student. But it is believed that it will prove useful even to them as a com pact and careful review and summary of the important principles and doctrines in its field, and as a convenient means Of reference to the best and most telling authorities. The very wealth of material in the large treatises, -some Of which are beyond all need of praise for their great worth and practical value, - Often renders it difficult to determine which of the army Of 'cases cited are the best for reading or reference. Here the citations are, so to speak, few, but they are carefully chosen and important. For lawyers who have not convenient access to large libraries, the selected cases also constitute a reservoir of valuable original authorities. 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.