Note 21 — Chapter XI · Wills, Quaint and Curious.
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II. Pollock and Maitland’s History English Law, pp. 325, 326.
The statute of wills ordained that all persons having manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments could give and dispose of them, as well by last will, or testament in writing, as by any act executed in their lifetime. (IV. Reeve’s History English Law, p. 374.)