- Inheritance Act
- The statute of 3 and 4 Wm. IV., c. 106, which amended the English law of descents. For an outline of this statute see footnote in 2 Cooley's Blackstone, Commentaries 201.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
Inheritance Act
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