Shakespeare's Testamentary LanguageLongmans, Green, and Company, 1869 - 56 pages |
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... maie be bequeathed or devised by will or testament , certaine cases onelie excepted . Which rule is cleane contrarie to the former of the devise of lands , tenements and hereditaments ; for they can not be devised , saving where some ...
... maie be bequeathed or devised by will or testament , certaine cases onelie excepted . Which rule is cleane contrarie to the former of the devise of lands , tenements and hereditaments ; for they can not be devised , saving where some ...
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... maie dispose or devise by his testa- ment . Concerning the former of these , it shall not be a misse to speake first of the bequeathing or devising of landes , tenements or hereditaments . Secondlie , of bequeath- ing or devising of ...
... maie dispose or devise by his testa- ment . Concerning the former of these , it shall not be a misse to speake first of the bequeathing or devising of landes , tenements or hereditaments . Secondlie , of bequeath- ing or devising of ...
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... maie conceale and keepe secreete the tenor or con- tentes of his will , from the witnesses . Which he cannot doe when he maketh a nuncupative testament . And therefore if the testator be loath to have his will knowne , which thing ...
... maie conceale and keepe secreete the tenor or con- tentes of his will , from the witnesses . Which he cannot doe when he maketh a nuncupative testament . And therefore if the testator be loath to have his will knowne , which thing ...
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... maie or ought to be made . For performance whereof I thought it convenient , first to deliver certaine advertisements , and then to proceede . The first advertisement is this , that as there be divers kindes of testaments or laste ...
... maie or ought to be made . For performance whereof I thought it convenient , first to deliver certaine advertisements , and then to proceede . The first advertisement is this , that as there be divers kindes of testaments or laste ...
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... maie be demanded with like faciltie , what if the wife be no unthrifte , but frugall and ver- tuous ? what if the wife be an honest and modest woman ? which thing is the rather to be presumed . But if it be not amisse to feare the worst ...
... maie be demanded with like faciltie , what if the wife be no unthrifte , but frugall and ver- tuous ? what if the wife be an honest and modest woman ? which thing is the rather to be presumed . But if it be not amisse to feare the worst ...
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AIGBURTH APPENDIX bequest of soul Berlin Society Campbell's cautele under heaven chattels child civill lawe cleave commit common law Cowell custom death differeth disposing divers doth executor Faerie Queene former furor or insanitie generall hath heir heir-looms Henrie Swinburn Henry Herne the hunter honour Illustrated by Old insanitie of minde inventoried Julius Cæsar label Laertes lands Launce legacie legatarie Lex Scripta London Lord Campbell Macbeth Madfolkes maie ment Merchant of Venice Old Authors passage personal property praise province of Yorke real property Richard II Romeo and Juliet sense Shakespeare a Lawyer Shakespeare Illustrated Shakespeare's Legal Maxims SHAKESPEARE'S TESTAMENTARY LANGUAGE sick in body signification single bond souldier speak Sprachen Swin Swinburn tenements Testament and Last testator dooth testator having bequeathed testator saie thee thing thou tuition tutor Twelfth Night unthrifte unto whereof wife WILLIAM LOWES RUSHTON word bequeath word devise
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Page 26 - Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 32 - Think it no more: For nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews, and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.
Page 10 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 43 - If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it : A chield's amang you taking notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. If in your bounds ye chance to light Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight, O...
Page 3 - Caesar loved you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men ; And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad : 'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs ; For if you should, O, what would come of it ! 4 Cit.
Page 3 - Have patience, gentle friends; I must not read it : It is not meet you know how Caesar lov'd you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men, And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad. Tis good you know not that you are his heirs ; For if you should, O ! what would come of it ? 4 Cit.