Excerpt from Principles of the Administration of Assets: Payment of Debts The jurisdiction over the administration of the personal estates of deceased persons was, to a certain extent, vested from very early times in the Ecclesias tical Courts, and continued nominally to belong to them until their authority was formally abolished by the 20 21 Vict. C. 77 And for a long time the administration of the real estates of deceased persons remained under the control of the Common Law. 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.