Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers)
This work is a culmination of ALI’s 20-year project to update the law of wills and succession. It is a comprehensive treatment of the American law of wills, will substitutes, intestacy, gifts, powers of appointment, present and future interests, and the construction of donative documents. The coverage includes subjects in the Restatement of Property and the Restatement Second of Property (Donative Transfers), both of which are now superseded.
Note: Volume 3 is currently out of stock until the first quarter of 2025.
Reporter:
Lawrence W. Waggoner, University of Michigan Law School
Associate Reporter:
John H. Langbein, Yale Law School
Official Text Volume 1500 pages, 1999, #6133This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the law of probate transfers by wills and by intestacy, articulating rules for probate transfers that seek to give effect to the donor’s intentions while providing safeguards against the defeat of those intentions by fraud or mistake. Subjects covered include definitions and basic principles, intestacy, will formalities, the harmless-error rule, revocation of wills, revival of revoked wills, and post-execution events affecting wills, including ademption and lapse.
More details and content summaryXHardbound | 6133 | 1999 | 500 pages | $95.00
VOLUME 1 (§§ 1.1 to 5.5)
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
DIVISION I - PROBATE TRANSFERS - (WILLS AND INTESTACY)
Chapter
1. Definitions and Basic Principles
2. Intestacy
3. Execution of Wills
4. Revocation of Wills
5. Post-Execution Events Affecting Wills
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Parallel Tables Showing Corresponding Restatement Third and Restatement Second Section Numbers
Table of Cross References to Digest System Key Numbers and ALR Annotations
Index
In the Institute’s Restatement tradition, this authoritative volume combines clear black-letter provisions with extensive explanatory Comments, clarifying Illustrations, and detailed Reporter’s Notes. The volume is further enhanced by tables of cases, statutes, parallel tables showing corresponding Restatement Third and Restatement Second section numbers, a table of cross-references to the West Digest System and ALR annotations, and an Index.
The Restatement will be supplemented by Annual Pocket Parts.
ISBN - 978-0-314-23937-5- Official Text Volume 2513 pages, 2003, #1R3WDTV2OT
This volume begins by restating the law of nonprobate transfers such as gifts and will substitutes. It continues with a consideration of protective doctrines such as mental incapacity, minority, and undue influence, as well as of protection for surviving spouses and of premarital and marital agreements. Mortmain is abolished. The final unit covers construction, reformation and modification of donative documents.
More details and content summaryXHardbound | 1R3WDTV2OT | 2003 | 513 pages | $98.00
VOLUME 2 (§§ 6.1 to 12.2)
FOREWORD
DIVISION II - NONPROBATE TRANSFERS (GIFTS AND WILL SUBSTITUTES) Chapter
6. Gifts
7. Will Substitutes
DIVISION II - PROTECTIVE DOCTRINES
Chapter
8. Invalidity Due to the Donor’s Incapacity or Another’s Wrongdoing
9. Protections Against Disinheritance
DIVISION IV - CONSTRUCTION, REFORMATION, AND MODIFICATION OF DONATIVE DOCUMENTS
Chapter
10. General Principles
11. Resolving Ambiguities
12. Reforming and Modifying Donative Documents
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Parallel Tables Showing Corresponding Restatement Third, Restatement Second, and Restatement First Section Numbers
Table of Cross References to Digest System Key Numbers and ALR Annotations
Index
In the Institute’s Restatement tradition, this authoritative volume combines clear black-letter provisions with extensive explanatory Comments, clarifying Illustrations, and detailed Reporter’s Notes.
The Restatement will be supplemented by Annual Pocket Parts.
FGM - 40123977
ISBN - 978-0-314-10463-1