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Deputy Commissary's Guide within the Province of Maryland, 1774
Volume 139, Page 120   View pdf image (33K)
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120        DIRECTIONS for EXrs. and ADMrs.

the doing of which, the law allows her forty
days from the probate of the will:  if she neglects
to enter her election within that time, the law
will conclude her by the bequests in the will,
and she may not thereafter claim her thirds.
Where the testator doth bequeath part of his
personal, and devise also part of his real estate
to his wife, instead of her thirds and dower, it
is at her election either to accept both, or to
stand to the devise of the real estate instead of
her dower, and refuse the bequest of the personal
estate, and in lieu thereof claim her
thirds; or she may accept the latter, and refuse
the former, at her will and pleasure.
 

Direction
with regard
to the inventory.
    The making of the inventory is the next
thing in view; for the finishing of which three
months are allowed.
 
    How the inventory is to be formed, what is
therein to be inserted, by whom to be signed,
with other particulars relating to it, is treated
of under the preceding head of inventory, page
12. which see.
 
    The inventory must also contain accidental
sums of money (if any) received by the executor,
or administrator, in the course of their administration;
as for instance.


 
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