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 READY IN JANUARY, 1887. NEW AMERICAN TREATISE ON THE LAW OF WILLS. COMPLETE !N ONE VOLUME. A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF WILLS. By JAMES SCHOULER, Lecturer in Boston University Law School, and author of works on '■ Executors and Administrators," " Domestic Relati^.^o," " Bailments," " Personal Property," etc^ In preparing his recent treatise on THE Law of Executors and Administrators, Mr. Schouler saw the need of -A late American Treatise on the Law of Wills, to supplement and complete it. It is now ten years since the last edition of Redfield on Wills was pub- lished, and five years since the last American editions of Jarman. When his work on Executors was published, he proceeded to 'he preparation of the treatise now announced, which is already completed, except the Index, and will be ready for sale in January,, 1887. The size and style of Schouler on Wills will be the same as those of Schouler on Executors. It is marked by the same merits that have made the latter book so popular. Being in one volume; being recent; being entirely from an American point of view; comino- with the authority of an experienced law writer, — it will commend itself at once to all lawyers. The two volumes together constitute a prac* tical and comprehensive treatise upon the estates of Decedents. THE PRICE WILL BE $5.50 NET. Advance orders will be placed on file, and filled promptly upon publication. CONTENTS OF SCHOULER ON WILLS. part I. Introductory Chapter. — Nature and Origin of Testamentary Disposition. PART II. Capacity and Incapacity to makh a Will. Chap. I. Testamentary Capacity in General. II. Incapacity of Infants. III. Incapacity of Married Women. IV. Incapacity of Insane Persons in General. V. Incapacity of Idiots, Imbeciles, and tlie Deaf, Dumb, and Blind. VI. Lunacy and General Mental Derangement. VIZ. Delirium, Drunkenness, and Dementia. VIII. Monomania and Insane Delusions. IX. Proof of Capacity and Incapacity. X. Error, Fraud, and Undue Influence. PART III. Formal Rhouisites of a Will. Chap. I. What Constitutes a Will. II. Signature by the Testator. III. Attestation and Subscription by Witnesses. IV. Nuncupative or Oral Wills. PART IV. Revocation, Alteh,tion, and Republication OF Wills. Chap. I. Revocation of Wills. II. Alteration of Wills. III. Republication of Wills. PART V. Wills upon Valuable Consideration. Chap. I. Joint and Mutual Wills. PART VI. Construction of Wills. Chap. I. General Rules ot Testamentary Construction. II. Detailsof Testamentary Construction. III. Extrinsic Evidence to aid Construction. IV. Miscellaneous Provisions Construed. APPENDIX: — Leading Statutes Relating to Wills. Forms of Wills. Suggestions to those Drawing Wills. Index, and Table of Cases Cited. A NEW BOOK ALREADY RECOGNIZED AS A STANDARD. SCHOULER ON EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS. Although the subject has been treated incidentally in works on Wills, although there are excellent and voluminous English works which discuss it, and although many States have local treatises on Prpbate and kindred matters, there has been, heretofore, no separate and general work on the American law of Executors and Administrators. James Schouler, author of treatises on Personal Property, Bailments, etc., having had his attention drawn to the need of some such work, by practical experience in this special branch of the law, has published recently a very good and very practical book on this subject. Without insti- tuting comparisons with other text-writers on this important branch of the law, we claim'that no work of a single volume is already before the profes- sional public presenting historically and logically ihe whole English and American law of executors and administrators, with a due regard for the modern practical needs of such fiduciaries and their legal advisers ; separating the main subject from those more abstruse topics which pertain to Wills and Testamentary Trusts, and giving to the excellent points of our American probate practice the prominence justly deserved. Hon. Amasa A. Redfield, of New York, writes thus to the author : " I have examined, with great interest, the system and labor which your work reveals, and I think it may fairly be said that the table of cases cited shows that no work exists so useful to the practising lawyer as your own." The very able critic who writes the book reviews for the American Law Review says : " The work is one which will be hailed with great satisfaction^ by the whole profession. The want of an American book on the subject has been keenly felt, and Mr. Schouler may well consider him- self as a pioneer author in this field of Anierican jurisprudence, and, as such, will surely reap the benefit of his arduous labors, in the shape of the popularity and extensive sale of this book." The Albany Law Journal says: " iMr. Schouler has peculiar gifts and experience for the treatment of this subject. His work is a model at once of comprehensiveness and of exclusion of subordinate matters. In it the practitioner and student will find a most excellent guide." ONE VOLUME, OCTAVO, PRiCE, IN LAW SHEEP, $5.50 net. SCHOULER'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Bancroft's History of the United States comes down only to the adoption of the Constitution, leaving the history of "The United States" still to be written. Mr. Schouler has taken up our national history from this period, and in his early volumes has treated with clearness and method, not only the striking events of later periods, but also the social and economical life of the people, their recreations, their habits of thought and action, their municip^al arrangements, the character and influence of immigration, the influence of classes and families upon the mass of voters, the difficulties of intercommunication, and the provincial peculiarities of newspapers. The result is what the New York Evening Post calls " the most real history yet produced for the period which it covers." Lawyers will be especially interested in this History, from the fact that its author is well and widely known to their profession as the author of excellent treatises on Executors and other branches of the law. He brings to his work of historical investigation the great advantages of legal study and training. Whoever has Bancroft's History — or, without having it, wishes a history of our country from the Revolutionary period to the Civil War- will find in Schouler's History of^the United States a readable and authentic work. The full title of this work is A Hlstory of the United States of America under the Constitution. By James Schouler. To be completed in five volumes. Vols, i, 2, and 3 now ready. Price %)er volume, in cloth, $2.00; in sheep, $2.50 ; in half calf, $3.25. r