A Practical Exposition of the Law of Wills, with Plain Instructions and Advice to Testators, Executors, and Legatees, and Observations on the Consequences of Intestacy: To Which Are Added Directions Respecting the Probate of Wills and the Taking Out of Le
A Practical Exposition of the Law of Wills, with Plain Instructions and Advice to Testators, Executors, and Legatees, and Observations on the Consequences of Intestacy: To Which Are Added Directions Respecting the Probate of Wills and the Taking Out of Le
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... Stamp-Office, London. Regulations to be observed for obtaining a return of duty overpaid, and for paying the necessary increase of duty due on Probates of Wills and Letters of Administration, on which too much or too little stamp-duty shall have been paid, on taking out the same, in consequence of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... Stamp-Office, London. Regulations to be observed for obtaining a return of duty overpaid, and for paying the necessary increase of duty due on Probates of Wills and Letters of Administration, on which too much or too little stamp-duty shall have been paid, on taking out the same, in consequence of the estate and effects of the deceased having been estimated, by mistake, at a greater or less value than they were. 1. Application roust be made, in the first instance, in the Legacy-Duty-Department: and within six calendar months after the true value of the effects shall have been ascertained, and it shall be discovered that too much or too little duty has been paid. 2. Persons applying must produce the probate or letters of administration, together with an affidavit by the executor or administrator, executors or administrators, stating the circumstances of the case, according to the forms subjoined, or as nearly as may be. 3. The affidavit must be made before a Master in Chancery, ordinary or extraordinary, and upon a 2s. 6d. stamp, unless the executors or administrators shall attend in person at the StampOffice, in which case the affidavit may be sworn before a Commissioner, and will not require a stamp, but must be brought ready written, and left in the Legacy-Duty-Department for examination, one day previous to the parties attending. 4. In all cases of a return of duty being applied for, there must be annexed to the affidavit a correct inventory account and valuation of the estate and effects of the deceased, which must be subscribed by the person or persons making the affidavit. 5. In cases of letters of administration, on which too little duty shall have been paid at first, there must be delivered with the affidavit, a certificate from...
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