Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Executors, Administrators and Guardians, and of the Remedies by and Against Them, in Surrogates' Courts of the State of New York: Together With an Account of the Jurisdiction and Practice of Those Courts, in the Admeasurement of Dower A treatise Of this kind is not a work of imagination, in which the author can draw his materials from his own mind. He has, therefore, felt it to be his duty, in preparing it, to consult the English treatises on kindred subjects, as well as those published in this state, and has derived. Assistance from all. He has, however, mainly relied upon the statutes and the adjudged cases for the foundation of his work. He has endeavored to state nothing as law unless it was contained in the statutes or adjudged cases, or was fairly deducible-from them. Should it be asked why the necessity for a new trea tise on a subject which has already been discussed by others, it may be answered, without disparagement to any one, that the subject embraces a vast variety of topics, and can scarcely be fully illustrated by any one mind. It is far from being exhausted by the writers who have treated of it, or by the present work. 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.