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Curiosities of the Search-room
Mrs. Wm. Pitt Byrne
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A Collection of Serious and Whimsical Wills
出版The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2005
主題Law / GeneralLaw / Wills
ISBN15847759049781584775904
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GVrgI6GUEcAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Byrne, Wm. Pitt, Mrs. [Julia C.], Compiler. Curiosities of theSearch-Room: A Collection of Serious, and Whimsical Wills. London: Chapman and Hall, 1880. ix, 407 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-590-4. ISBN-10: 1-58477-590-4. Cloth. $95.* Byrne [1819-1894] describes this collection of colorful wills as "a series of romantic narratives." Some are so romantic, in fact, that "those who are at a loss for the plot of a new novel might dip into this collection for novel materials" (ii). Contents include "Excentric Wills," "Puzzling Wills," "Wills in Obsolete Language and and in Rime," "Vindictive Wills," "Bequests to Wives," "Wills in Favour of Dumb Animals," "Disputed Wills" and "Wills of Remarkable Persons."