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Excerpt from The Law of Succession, Testamentary and Intestate
Courts and in the Ecclesiastical Courts as their starting point, and proceeded to develop it on lines all their own. They introduced many new rules into the law itself, and they assumed a jurisdiction which affected both the juris diction of the Common Law Courts and of the Ecclesiastical Courts. The Ecclesiastical Courts have not now, it is true, any jurisdiction in cases of succession; but since 1857 the Court of Probate (now the Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court) has taken their place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.