The office and duty of executors : or, A treatise of wills and executors, directed to testators, in the choice of the executors, and contrivance of their wills With the direction for execucors in the execution of their office according to the law .. be they either executors, creditors, or debtors . ants^ ani their making ofingmade ExecHtors. il B Eing now to confider of difabiliby Age, for want of years in perfc MS Jl making or being made Executors ; • - us firft take view of the feveral Ages men and women, to feveral purpofes m ^^terial in the Law, Judgment, and Rfped. And firft, touching a W
The office and duty of executors : or, A treatise of wills and executors, directed to testators, in the choice of the executors, and contrivance of their wills With the direction for execucors in the execution of their office according to the law .. be they either executors, creditors, or debtors . ants^ ani their making ofingmade ExecHtors. il B Eing now to confider of difabiliby Age, for want of years in perfc MS Jl making or being made Executors ; • - us firft take view of the feveral Ages men and women, to feveral purpofes m ^^terial in the Law, Judgment, and Rfped. And firft, touching a Wom,ae 5$ Wang ford in Henry the fixth his ticfhews, and other Books approve, th(fhe hath fix feveral Ages refpe£lcdinari 1. by the Law. As firft, the Ag^ of 7 yeanfor her Father to have Aid of hisTenan 2. to marry her. Next, nine years,t6 defersDower, that is, that in cafe fhe be of th;Age at the time of her Husbands deadihe lliall be endowed : but not if flie bany thing under thofe years j the Lanbeing Phyfically informed , that a Woman at thofe years may conceive a chillihilt not under them. But of fomewhidifferent opinion was,as it feems,the Par ?8 E/iz. li^rnent in the late Queens time, when iwas mide Felony to have unlawfall carnaknowledge of any Woman-child under tt|. an Executor. \ often years, it being then conceivI think, that no fucn eould confee Age of 12 years is a Womans timaffenting or difaffenting to Marriage^more tender years had. For fo it ap-^ars by divers Books ; although have here no dittin6^ion betweenlie and female. The age of 14 years is 4,Romans time to be in Wavd{hip,or not;as if flie be any thing abovathofe yearsthe time of her Anceftors death, fliecapeth Wardfhip. TheAge of fixteen ^,iars is her time of coming out of Ward-dp, being once fallen under it: for al-lough had {he been full fourteen , fheid efcaped it j yet not fo being at theme of her Anceftors death, her Ward-up lafteth till fixteen years, except theord fhali f
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