AN EXAMINATION OF THE RULES OF LAW, RESPECTING THE D.R TMS ADMISSION OF EXTRINSIC EVIDENCE IN AID OF THE Enterpretation of Wills. BY JAMES WIGRAM, Esq. OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER AT LAW. Second Edition. LONDON: PRINTED FOR CHARLES HUNTER, LAW BOOKSELLER, ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JAMES PARKE, ONE OF THE BARONS OF HIS MAJESTY'S COURT OF EXCHEQUER, THIS WORK IS, BY HIS PERMISSION, RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. ADVERTISEMENT ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION. SINCE the former Edition of this little work was published, several important cases have arisen which involved the question of admitting Extrinsic Evidence in aid of the Exposition of Wills, and the attention of the Courts has been pointedly called to the distinctions which it was the object of the author to establish. Adverting to the practical nature and general importance of the subject, he trusts he is rendering an acceptable service to the Profession in collecting these cases together. He has further endeavoured, in this Edition, to simplify the subject itself, by exhibiting it in its proper character-namely, as part of a general system of rules applicable to the exposition of Wills in general, and not as an insulated point depending upon rules peculiar to itself. LINCOLN'S INN, 1st December, 1834 |