Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers)

500 pages, 1999, #6133

This 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.

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Hardbound  | 6133  | 1999  | 500 pages

Volume 1 (§§ 1.1 to 5.5)

Foreword
Introduction

Division I. Probate Transfers - (Wills and Intestacy)
  Chapter 1. Definitions and Basic Principles
  Chapter 2. Intestacy
  Chapter 3. Execution of Wills
  Chapter 4. Revocation of Wills 
  Chapter 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
 

Reporter:
Lawrence W. Waggoner, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
Associate Reporter:
John H. Langbein, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT

513 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.

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Hardbound  | 1R3WDTV2OT  | 2003  | 513 pages

Volume 2 (§§ 6.1 to 12.2)

Foreword

Division II. Nonprobate Transfers (Gifts and Will Substitutes)
  Chapter 6. Gifts
  Chapter 7. Will Substitutes

Division III. Protective Doctrines
  Chapter 8. Invalidity Due to the Donor’s Incapacity or Another’s Wrongdoing 
  Chapter 9. Protections Against Disinheritance

Division IV. Construction, Reformation, and Modification of Donative Documents
  Chapter 10. General Principles
  Chapter 11. Resolving Ambiguities
  Chapter 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.
 

FGM - 40123977
ISBN - 978-0-314-10463-1
 

Reporter:
Lawrence W. Waggoner, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
Associate Reporter:
John H. Langbein, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT

757 pages, 2011, #1R3WDTV3OT

This volume takes up class gifts, powers of appointment, present and future interests, and perpetuities. It includes provisions that modernize and simplify the law of future interests, class-gift rules that respond to the legal problems arising from recent scientific developments in reproductive technology, a simplified formulation of the rule against perpetuities, and a clear and principled explanation of the reasons for limiting dead-hand control of property.

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Hardbound  | 1R3WDTV3OT  | 2011  | 757 pages

Volume 3 (§§ 13.1 to 27.3)

Foreword

Division V. Class Gifts
  Chapter 13. General Characteristics of a Class Gift 
  Chapter 14. Presumptive Meaning of Class-Gift Terms of Relationship
  Chapter 15. Increase and Decrease in Class Membership
  Chapter 16. Class Gifts to Heirs

Division VI. Powers of Appointment
  Chapter 17. Introduction to Powers of Appointment: Terminology and Definitions
  Chapter 18. Creation of a Power of Appointment
  Chapter 19. Exercise of a Power of Appointment
  Chapter 20. Release and Disclaimer of a Power of Appointment
  Chapter 21. Contracts to Appoint
  Chapter 22. Rights of the Donee’s Creditors in Appointive Assets
  Chapter 23. Elective-Share Rights of the Donee’s Surviving Spouse in Appointive Assets

Division VII. Present and Future Interests
  Chapter 24. Present Interests: Classification
  Chapter 25. Future Interests: Classification
  Chapter 26. Present and Future Interests: Construction

Division VIII. Public-Policy Limitation on Dead-Hand Control: The Rule Against Perpetuities
  Chapter 27. Rule Against Perpetuities

Appendix. Sections from Restatement Second, Property (Donative Transfers), Division I, Part II

Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Parallel Tables Showing Corresponding Restatement Third, Restatement Second, and Restatement First Section Numbers

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.
 

ISBN - 978-0-314-60507-8
 

Reporter:
Lawrence W. Waggoner, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
Associate Reporter:
John H. Langbein, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT