An essay to ascertain the value of leases and annuities for years and lives . Rents on fuch Ellates;without which the \^alue of them cannot be rightly afcertaind ;and ftating at what Rate Intereil ought to be computed in pur-chahng Annuities or Leafes, either for Years or Lives, if the Pur-chafers expeft to have the Principal reimburfed , or an Equivalent. A Method likewife is Ihewn, of calculating to what Number ofYears any given Life or Live?, on an even Chance, may probablvextend, whereby Ellates held by thofe Tenures are converted intoTerms certain, and the \alue of them thereby readily fe
An essay to ascertain the value of leases and annuities for years and lives . Rents on fuch Ellates;without which the \^alue of them cannot be rightly afcertaind ;and ftating at what Rate Intereil ought to be computed in pur-chahng Annuities or Leafes, either for Years or Lives, if the Pur-chafers expeft to have the Principal reimburfed , or an Equivalent. A Method likewife is Ihewn, of calculating to what Number ofYears any given Life or Live?, on an even Chance, may probablvextend, whereby Ellates held by thofe Tenures are converted intoTerms certain, and the \alue of them thereby readily fecn: And .all other Schemes for adjufting fuch \alueare fhewn to be falfeorprecarious. To which arc added, in the Appendix, Tables adapted to thefe feveral Purpofes, and to moft Cafes which may arife on the Value of Eftates of this Kind. By W E V M A N Lee, Efq; L O N D O N:Printed for S. Birt, in Ax NVOV^ E R. SHALL not need to give anyReafoHs for writing the following^^eatife^ or for puUiJbi4g it now tis wrote^ becmife the- SubjeB-. Matter is, of a very common andgeneral Concern: Korfhalljtronble you witha long Treface^ to give an Account of mylln-^dertaking^ or to commend my my Notions and Calculations are righty andof any Service^ their own Weight will andjhall bear them out; and if they are wrongsor are tfelejs^ I have not fo great an Opnionof my own^ or fo little an one of otherTeoflesUnder ft anding, as to expeB that the Worldwill have any Regard to what I may fay torecommend them. But as. in writing on this oubjeEi I havetravelled out of my proper Trofejfion^ and un-dertaken a Province which may feem not tobelong to me; and info doing have encounterd^not vtilgar Opinions only^ but fome which havebeen received on the Authority of great Men ;and fine e I have carried the Matter fo far ^ asto attack Rides and Computations which aregrounded^ or fuppofed to be grounded^ onessaytoascertain00leew
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