Gavelkind, 17. German. See Full blood. Glanvil, rules of personal succession in his time, 5. the period when he wrote, 13. Grandchildren, customary law of succession does not extend to, 53. Great-grandfather. See Distribution. shares with an uncle, 336. Grosseteste Bishop, his epistles to Walter de Ralegh on legitimation Guardian, can he change the domicil of a ward? 196. Half blood in England shares equally with full blood, 334. Heir, under the statutes of distribution, takes with the other children, Heirlooms, 309. Hotchpot, advancements to children to be brought into, 324, 325, Husband and wife; the husband surviving, the whole personal administration to be granted to him for his own use, ibid. even after his death, if he survive the wife, administration to if the wife survive, her choses in action belong to her, 319. Infant, at what age may an infant make a will? 311. equitable, what, ibid. Ireland, law of personal succession in, 55. Henry III. granted a charter of liberties to his Irish subjects, ancient English statutes extended to Ireland by Poyning's the granting of administrations in, regulated by 28 H.8. c. 18. the English statutes of distribution extended to Ireland by the custom of reasonable partition abolished by the same bankrupt law introduced into, by 11 & 12 G. 3. Irish stat., 229. Justinian, novel 118., the statute of distributions modelled from, 38. Kindred distinguished into descendants, ascendants, and collaterals, Kindred, degrees of, calculated differently by the civil and canon laws, Leases in England personal estate; in Scotland of a mixed nature, Legatine constitutions of Otho and Othobon, 9. London Consistory Court, probate in, effectual as to public funds, 280. protests in the Lords against introduction of the power of be- unlimited power of disposing of personal estate by will granted, intricacy introduced by the different statutes, 53. 107. succession of an honorary freeman regulated by the custom, controls the law of the domicil, 105. 107. 350. formerly a freeman could not devise the guardianship of his court of orphans, and orphan-chamber, their former power and now of smaller importance; no orphans under their charge, mode of proceeding formerly on the death of a freeman, 353. the custom only takes place in regard to the rights of the division on the death of a freeman, after payment of debts and wife of a freeman may be barred or compounded with, 356. a child fully advanced takes no share; but no advancement a partial advance may be brought into hotchpot, 358. a child may bar the customary share, 359. a release operates in favour of the other children, ibid. grandchildren take nothing under the custom, 360. customary share of the wife vests on her husband's death, 361. a husband attainted of felony, the wife takes under the custom a daughter marrying without her father's consent takes no custom of, leases for years to attend the inheritance, not assets Lunatics, 113, 114, 115. Lyndwood's Provinciale, 9, 10. Madox Formulare Anglicanum, ancient deeds in, 20. of Henry III., rules of personal succession by, ibid. at what age can a minor make a will? 311. Mortgages and securities for money affecting real property, in on her surviving, where no father, wife or children, but brothers where also no brothers or sisters, or representatives of them, propinquity deduced from the mother as well as from the can she change domicil of her children? 196. Muier puisné, 17. Nephew in distribution shares equally with an uncle, 335. Ordinary, the, in ecclesiastical law, why so termed, 8. Orphans in London formerly under charge of the Court of Orphans Otho, legatine constitutions of, 9. Othobon, legatine constitutions of, 9. addressed to the churches of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Paraphernalia of wife, 340. 356. Personal estate in England does not in all things coincide with Poyning's law, extended prior English statutes to Ireland, 56. Probates and administrations, expenses of, to be deducted out of the granted by a vast variety of courts in England, 249. fees paid upon them, 251. where a wife died, survived by her husband, administration Puberty, age of, 311. Pur autre vie, estates, 346. Rationabili parte bonorum, writ de, 26. Representation in the descending line admitted in the remotest degree, among collaterals, confined to brothers' and sisters' children, 333. Ricardus de Lucy, an ancient writer in the law, 14. Richmond archdeaconry, exorbitant fees on successions formerly Selden states that early English writers adopted much from Justinian, Settlement, different meanings of, in England and Scotland, 98. 12 Ed. 1. (statutum wallia), 41. 13 Ed. 1. c. 19. (Westminster the second), 27. 31 Ed. 3. c. 4. (extortions in proving of wills), ibid. c. 11. (administrations introduced), 28, 274. 3 H. 5. c. 8. (expenses of probates), 29. 21 H.8. c.5. (regulating to whom administrations to be granted), 27 H. 8. c. 26. (as to real estate in Wales), 42. 34 and 35 H. 8. c. 5. (introducing the law of bankruptcy), 22 and 23 C. 2. c. 10. (statute of distributions), 31. as to 1 Ja. 2. c. 17. § 5. (making the last statute perpetual), ibid. 4 W. 3. c. 2. (a general power of testing in the province of - 7 and 8 W. 3. c. 38. (a general testing power given in Wales), 2 and 3 An. c. 5. (same power extended to the city of York), 11 G. 1. c. 18. (same power given to citizens of London), 51. 6 G. 4. c. 16. (in regard to bankruptcy), 229. 11 G. 4. and 1 W. 4. c. 40. (defining rights of executors), 39. Stephen opposed the introduction of the civil law into England, 14. Succession, early rules of, 5. was then per rationabiles partes, 6. Suffolk, Duchess of, her case; a mother then held not to be of kin to Swinburne, arguments in, for and against the unlimited power of Table of degrees of kindred, 331. Vesting of a distributive share takes place on the death of the de- different as to an orphanage part under the custom of London, uncle shares equally with a nephew, 335. takes a distributive share with a great-grandfather, 336. Wales, custom of, little distinctly known in regard to, 41. unlimited power of bequeathing by will given in by 7 and rights of wives and children then existing saved, 43. rules of distribution by the custom of, little known or discussed, Walker, Sir Walter, a distinguished civilian, 32. statute of distributions prepared by him, ibid. Widow. See Distribution. See London, custom of. See York, custom of the province of. Widow's chamber in London, 256. Wife. See Distribution. See London, custom of. See York, custom of the province of. Will, power of disposing of personal estate by, unlimited in England, the age at which it is competent to make a will of personal es- a husband and father may dispose of the whole personal estate arguments in Swinburne for and against this power, 315. formerly not held valid in England unless an executor named, 320. but courts of equity have long held such a will good, ibid. York, custom of the province, over what limits it extends, 44. doubts introduced by the statute of distributions removed by |