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Author : Alberta Law Reform Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Wills
ISBN : 1896078370
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Wills
ISBN : OCLC:1059223831
Author : Jakub Wysmułek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004461444
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of wills in late medieval Krakow. It presents the origins of testamentary acts in the Kingdom of Poland and its centre, Krakow, and their subsequent transformation from so called ‘canonical wills’ to ‘communal wills’. Wysmułek discusses the socio-cultural role of wills and sets them in their contemporary legal, social, and economic context. In doing so, he uncovers their influence on property ownership and family relations in the city, as well as on the religious practices of the burghers. Ultimately, this work seeks to change the perception of wills by treating the testamentary act itself as an important agent of historical social change – a ‘tool of power’.
Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780804771085
The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you can't take it with you. The stock of wealth that turns over as people die is staggeringly large. In the United States alone, some $41 trillion will pass from the dead to the living in the first half of the 21st century. But the social impact of inheritance is more than a matter of money; it is also a matter of what money buys and brings about. Law and custom allow people many ways to pass on their property. As Friedman's enlightening social history reveals, a decline in formal rules, the ascendancy of will substitutes over classic wills, social changes like the rise of the family of affection, changing ideas of acceptable heirs, and the potential disappearance of the estate tax all play a large role in the balance of wealth. Dead Hands uncovers the tremendous social and legal importance of this rite of passage, and how it reflects changing values and priorities in American families and society.
Author : Daniel M. Wegner
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262290555
A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism. Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue. Like actions, he argues, the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain. Yet if psychological and neural mechanisms are responsible for all human behavior, how could we have conscious will? The feeling of conscious will, Wegner shows, helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of the things our minds and bodies do. Yes, we feel that we consciously will our actions, Wegner says, but at the same time, our actions happen to us. Although conscious will is an illusion, it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality. Approaching conscious will as a topic of psychological study, Wegner examines the issue from a variety of angles. He looks at illusions of the will—those cases where people feel that they are willing an act that they are not doing or, conversely, are not willing an act that they in fact are doing. He explores conscious will in hypnosis, Ouija board spelling, automatic writing, and facilitated communication, as well as in such phenomena as spirit possession, dissociative identity disorder, and trance channeling. The result is a book that sidesteps endless debates to focus, more fruitfully, on the impact on our lives of the illusion of conscious will.
Author : Kentaro Kawamori
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781394201563
Creative and practical free-market solutions to climate change In Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis and Capitalism Will Solve It: The Market Forces Catalyzing a Climate Technology Renaissance, distinguished author Kentaro Kawamori delivers a fascinating and timely exploration of the interplay between capitalism and climate change. He explains how the capitalist system helped to contribute to the current crisis of global warming and how that same system will help to end it. In the book, the author discusses the enormous impact of the climate crisis and how the government, the modern finance industry, the fossil fuel industry, and others combined to accelerate the warming of the world. He then considers the roles those same players will play to reverse this effect in the coming years. You’ll also find: Discussions of how climate tech innovations will transform the economy and how technology disruptors will become involved in the process The ways the energy industry will change to incorporate the realities and consequences of a warming climate Explorations of the incentives created by free market structures and how to include climate stakeholders in the discussion An engaging and exciting new resource for anyone interested in the intersection of economics, business, and the environment, Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis and Capitalism Will Solve It contains practical and thoughtful climate prescriptions for a world desperately in need of them.
Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691217642
From Pulitzer Prize–winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine’s Confessions In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions, this is an unparalleled introduction to one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. Understandably fascinated by the story of Augustine's life, modern readers have largely succumbed to the temptation to read the Confessions as autobiography. But, Wills argues, this is a mistake. The book is not autobiography but rather a long prayer, suffused with the language of Scripture and addressed to God, not man. Augustine tells the story of his life not for its own significance but in order to discern how, as a drama of sin and salvation leading to God, it fits into sacred history. "We have to read Augustine as we do Dante," Wills writes, "alert to rich layer upon layer of Scriptural and theological symbolism." Wills also addresses the long afterlife of the book, from controversy in its own time and relative neglect during the Middle Ages to a renewed prominence beginning in the fourteenth century and persisting to today, when the Confessions has become an object of interest not just for Christians but also historians, philosophers, psychiatrists, and literary critics. With unmatched clarity and skill, Wills strips away the centuries of misunderstanding that have accumulated around Augustine's spiritual classic.
Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439126455
The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.
Author : Simon Wills
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781526701619
Make Arbor Day every day with little known and intriguing facts about the plants that populate our forests, give us shade, and clean our air. Have you ever wondered how trees got their names? What did our ancestors think about trees, and how were they used in the past? This fascinating book will answer many of your questions, but also reveal interesting stories that are not widely known. For example, the nut from which tree was predicted to pay off the UK’s national debt? Or why is Europe’s most popular pear called the “conference”? Simon Wills tells the history of twenty-eight common trees in an engaging and entertaining way, and every chapter is illustrated with his photographs. Find out why the London plane tree is so frequently planted in our cities, and how our forebears were in awe of the magical properties of hawthorn. Where is Britain’s largest conker tree? Which tree was believed to protect you against both lightning and witchcraft? The use of bay tree leaves as a sign of victory by athletes in ancient Greece led to them being subsequently adopted by many others—from Roman emperors to the Royal Marines. But why were willow trees associated with Alexander Pope, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Samuel Johnson? Why did Queen Anne pay a large sum for a cutting from a walnut tree in Somerset? Discover the answers to these and many other intriguing tales within the pages of this highly engrossing book.
Author : Denis Clifford
Publisher : NOLO
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0873379489
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Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Christianity
ISBN : OXFORD:600059121
Author : James Schouler
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020905670
This book provides a detailed overview of the law of wills and administration in the United States. It covers the legal requirements for creating wills, the procedures for probate and administration of estates, and the rights and responsibilities of heirs and beneficiaries. It is an essential resource for law students, practicing lawyers, and anyone interested in estate planning and administration. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101202876
“A remarkable achievement—a learned yet eminently readable and provocative exploration of the four small books that reveal most of what’s known about the life and death of Jesus.” (Los Angeles Times) Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017. In his New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant and What Paul Meant, Garry Wills offers tour-de-force interpretations of Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Here Wills turns his remarkable gift for biblical analysis to the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Wills examines the goals, methods, and styles of the evangelists and how these shaped the gospels' messages. Hailed as "one of the most intellectually interesting and doctrinally heterodox Christians writing today" (The New York Times Book Review), Wills guides readers through the maze of meanings within these foundational texts, revealing their essential Christian truths.
Author : Dr. Harrison Sachs
Publisher : The Epic Books Of Dr. Harrison Sachs
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This essay sheds light on what is a will, demystifies the different types of will, explicates the benefits of having a will, and reveals the problems with not having a will. Succinctly stated, a will refers to a document that specifies how a person would prefer to have his assets distributed in the tragic event of his passing. If a person lacks a will, then his requests appertaining to how he would prefer to have his assets distributed in the tragic event of his passing are inapt to be granted. There are a copious amount of disparate types of wills. One common type of will is “a last will and testament”. The “last will and testament” demystifies how a person would prefer to have his assets distributed in the tragic event of his passing. For instance, “a last will and testament” may instruct an executor of the estate to distribute a person’s assets to other specific people, such as his family members or friends, in the event of his passing. The executor of the estate has the onerous burden of administrating the estate. The “last will and testament” can serve as “the foundation of an estate plan”. Even though the “last will and testament” is not the only document that is utilized in an estate plan, it however can serve as the presiding document which is utilized to guide the lengthy process of settling an estate. The establishment of the “last will and testament” renders an estate all the more aptly poised to be settled in a manner that is aligned with the testator’s requests in the event of his passing. A testator’s beneficiaries that are listed in his “last will and testament” do not have to be limited to his friends and family members. For instance, a testator of “a last will and testament” is at liberty to have his assets doled out to organizations in the event of his passing. A testator of “a last will and testament” can even have his assets dispensed to a church in the event of his passing. A testator of “a last will and testament” has the autonomy to choose the parties to whom his assets will be bequeathed to in the event of his passing which can allow him to provide his assets to his family members and friends if he chooses to do so for the prospect of helping them to be able to ameliorate their lives. Being bequeathed assets can have bearing on helping the testator’s family members and friends to be able to ameliorate their lives if it allows them to be able to augment their standard of living. People are eminently eager to elevate their standard of living and are able to more easily facilitate the elevation of their standard of living if they have been bequeathed liquid assets. If someone is bequeathed real estate properties, then it can also help them to be able to enhance their standard of living, especially since real estate properties can potentially provide them with perpetual cash inflows in the form of rental income if they incessantly rent them out to tenants. “A last will and testament” does not need to remain outmoded if a testator is keen on modifying the provisions that comprise the “last will and testament”. It is possible for “a last will and testament” to be updated with the usage of codicils. Codicils allow the provisions of a will to be modified if the testator is adamant about modifying the provisions in his will. With the usage of codicils, a testator of a will can add provisions to his will, alter the provisions in his will, or revoke the provisions in his will. A codicil is not a will, but rather is a separate document which “references and amends the will”. The provisions of a will are not immutable during the lifetime of the testator since he can modify the provisions of a will with the utilization of codicils if he chooses to do so. Even though it is possible for a person to draft a will without procuring the services of an attorney to do so, a prospective testator should procure the services of an estate planning attorney to assist him with establishing a will. Prospective testators will often procure the services of an estate planning attorney to assist them with establishing a will. There are complexities involved in establishing a will that prospective testators are unfamiliar with dealing with. It can be a time-consuming process and complex process for a prospective testator to establish a will even with the assistance of an estate planning attorney to assist him with establishing a will. An estate planning attorney can draft a will on behalf of the testator to assist him with establishing a will which significantly eases the process of establishing a will on the testator’s end.
Author : John Proffatt
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664577672
"The Curiosities and Law of Wills" by John Proffatt is a legal treatise that delves into the intricate realm of wills and testaments. In a meticulous and scholarly manner, Proffatt navigates readers through the complexities of will-making, offering a comprehensive guide to understanding the laws governing this crucial aspect of estate planning. By exploring a variety of case studies and legal precedents, this book not only equips legal professionals with invaluable insights but also serves as an informative resource for individuals seeking to safeguard their legacies. From the intricacies of testamentary capacity to the formalities of executing a valid will, Proffatt leaves no stone unturned in illuminating the subject. Furthermore, he addresses the unique and often fascinating curiosities that can arise in the context of wills, providing readers with a captivating glimpse into the intersection of law and human affairs.