Excerpt from A Concise Treatise on the Construction of Wills Since the last edition of this work the Land Transfer Act, 1897, has come into operation. The statute makes important changes in the law relating to testamentary disposition. Though the Act has now been in Opera tion for more than two years, hardly any cases under it have come before the Courts. Sect. 4, which deals with executors' powers of appropriation, has been judiciously allowed to remain dormant by omitting to make rules under it. The decisions upon the construction of wills have been numerous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.