OF THE LAW OF INTESTATE SUCCESSION IN SCOTLAND, WITH A BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE LAW OF INTESTATE SUCCESSION IN ENGLAND; COMPREHENDING TABLES SHOWING, IN PARALLEL COLUMNS, THE MODES IN WHICH PERSONAL AS ALSO AN EPITOME OF THE LAW IN RELATION TO THE IMPOSITION, COLLECTION, AND WITH THE VARIOUS FORMS APPLICABLE TO THE SETTLEMENT OF THESE DUTIES, TO HAVING APPENDED THE RELATIVE STATUTES, ANNOTATED WITH REFERENCE TO THE TEXT. BY P. H. CAMERON, S.S.C., EDINBURGH, AUTHOR OF "SUMMARY OF THE LAW OF JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES." SECOND EDITION, REVised and enNLARGED. EDINBURGH: BELL & BRADFUTE, 12 BANK STREET. DEDICATION OF THE FIRST EDITION. ΤΟ HUGH BARCLAY, ESQUIRE, LL.D., SHERIFF-SUBSTITUTE OF PERTHSHIRE, This Little Work IS, BY PERMISSION, RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. PREFACE. ALTHOUGH nominally a Second Edition, this work is new in enlarged. the main, having been nearly all rewritten and greatly The First Edition, written when I was a student of law, was not prepared with a view to publication. It owed its appearance in print to the publishers. Being now out of print, I have been led, although not without some misgivings on account of the limited time at my disposal, to undertake the preparation of the present compilation, which I doubt not will be found of more practical utility than the former. Like the former work, however, the present does not claim to be considered as presenting a complete view of the principles and practice of the Law of Intestate Succession. It is intended rather to serve as an introduction to larger and more comprehensive works; in short, to furnish an outline of the general principles and axioms of the law, arranged in a simple and practical manner, divested of legal technicalities and disquisitions, subtle distinctions and multitudinous details, which not infrequently prove more embarrassing than useful to those who desire to refresh their memory with the least possible expenditure of time and labour. Whilst thus desiring to confine the work as much as possible to a statement of the general principles of the law, I have felt that these principles could not be rightly understood without some knowledge of their history and development. I have, therefore, set forth, in the beginning of the work, the rules of law as laid down in the leading institutional works, from the "Regiam Majestatem" to "Bell's Principles," and have appended footnotes showing the alterations that have been made on the law since the |