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Title page for William Nelson's Lex Testamentaria: Or, A Compendious System Of All The Laws Of England, As Well Before The Statute Of Henry VIII. As Since, Concerning Last Wills And Testaments : In Which Are Collected, All The Judgments And Resolutions Dispers'd In The Year-Books, And All Other Reports Both In Law And Equity, What Estates In Fee, In Tail, For Life Or Years, Have Been Created By Wills Either Expressly Or By Implication. Treating Also Of All Cases Concerning Executory Devices And Legacies. And Of All Actions, Pleas, And Judgments, By, For, Or Against Executors, Administrators, And Guardians : Very Necessary For All Who Are, Or May Be, Entitled To Any Estates By Virtue Of Any Will Or Administration, Or As Guardians To Infants : Collected In A More Plain, Easy, And Methodical Manner Than Hither To Hath Been Done In Any Treatise Of This Nature. London, In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Gosling for Joell Stephens, 1728.