TABLE OF CONTENTS 
Part II] 
THE LAW OF DESCENT, DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, AND 
ADMINISTRATION 
CHAPTER 
1. DESCENT, DISTRIBUTION, AND ADMINISTRA 
TION OF INTESTATE PERSONALTY 
introduction . . ; . . 
1. Descent and Distribution of Intestate Personalty . 
2. Administration of an Intestate’s Personal Effects | 
DESCENT OF REAL ESTATE UPON INTESTACY 
Introduction . 
General Allusions 
Who Is an Heir 
Curtesy . 
Dower . . 
Lineal Descent—Primogeniture 
Defeat of Lineal Descent by Will | . 
Lineal Descent of Realty to Adopted Children 
Lineal Descent to Females in Absence of Male 
Issue . . 
Representation 
Collaterals . . 
Persons Incapable of Inheritance 
LAW OF WILLS . 
Introduction . . . : 
Capacity to Make a Will . . ‘ 
The Nature of 2 Will or Testament . 
The Language of Testaments and Wills 
Shakespeare’s ** Second-Best Bed ” 
Limitations on Testation—Mortmain . . . 
Limitations on Testation—Superstitious and Chari. 
table Uses . . 
The Form of Wills 
Signing the Will 
Sealing the Will . 
Witnesses to the Will 
Codicils . . 
Revocation of Wills 
IV. THE LAW OF EXECUTORS AND PROBATE OF 
WILLS. 
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