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050 00 $aKD1528$b.W46 1763
100 1 $aWentworth, Thomas,$d1568?-1628.
245 14 $aThe office and duty of executors, or, A treatise directing testators to form and executors to perform their wills and testaments according to law :$bwhat a man may give or dispose of by his will, of revocations 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 /$coriginally compiled by that approved and judicious author 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 a gentleman of the Inner Temple.
246 30 $aOffice and duty of executors
246 30 $aTreatise directing testators to form and executors to perform their wills and testaments according to law
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted by H. Woodfall and W. Strahan, law printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, for J. Worrall ..., Anne Shuckburgh ..., and J. Richardson ...,$cMDCCLXIII [1763]
300 $a[16], 261, [13], 221, [49] p. ;$c20 cm (8vo)
500 $a"Supplement to the Office and duty of executors" has separate pagination; the register is continuous.
500 $aOriginally published anonymously; sometimes attributed to Sir John Doddridge.
500 $aSignatures: a⁸ B-2M⁸.
510 4 $aEnglish Short Title Catalogue,$centry T130109
500 $aIncludes indexes.
500 $aLC copy has a shelf label (?) with "Office and duty of executors" mounted on it, laid in.$5DLC
650 0 $aExecutors and administrators$zGreat Britain$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aWills$zGreat Britain$vEarly works to 1800.
700 1 $aDoddridge, John,$cSir,$d1555-1628,$esupposed author.
700 1 $aCurson, H.$q(Henry)