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The ‘Policy’ That Invalidates Testamentary Conditions Get access
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 39, Issue 3, Autumn 2019, Pages 553–576, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqz014
Published: 15 June 2019
... the coherence of the law—that the law ‘refuses to give by its right hand what it takes away by its left hand’—is the animating principle of both the marriage condition cases and the illegality cases. wills gifts conditions marriage enforceability policy This article considers what it means to say...
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New light on Jean-Philippe Rameau’s biography revealed by revisions to his father’s will Get access
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Early Music
Early Music, Volume 44, Issue 4, 1 November 2016, Pages 539–551, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caw078
Published: 30 December 2016
... numerous children a future free from want. A study of his numerous wills and codicils nevertheless reveals the tensions that existed in the Rameau household, notably between Jean Rameau and his two surviving sons, Jean-Philippe and Claude Bernard. Yet despite this strained relationship, Jean-Philippe...
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Too ill to will? Deathbed wills: assessing testamentary capacity near the end of life
Age and Ageing, Volume 45, Issue 3, May 2016, Pages 334–336, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afw055
Published: 23 March 2016
... these challenges and discusses some practical approaches. ageing older people wills capacity assessment deathbed The assessment of testamentary capacity is a growing area in the relationship between doctors and their patients. Our ageing society and the increasing prevalence of dementing illness...
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EDITOR'S CHOICE
Pathways From Religion to Advance Care Planning: Beliefs About Control Over Length of Life and End-of-Life Values Get access
The Gerontologist, Volume 53, Issue 5, October 2013, Pages 801–816, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gns128
Published: 15 November 2012
... in which ACP discussions could be held, as individuals with similar attitudes toward the end of life could discuss their treatment preferences with those who share their views. Advance directive living wills durable power of attorney for healthcare Many religious organizations...
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Living wills and the Mental Capacity Act: a postal questionnaire survey of UK geriatricians Get access
Age and Ageing, Volume 35, Issue 2, March 2006, Pages 116–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afj035
Published: 13 January 2006
... were hospital-based geriatricians. Their demographic details can be found in Appendix 1 (supplementary data are available at Age and Ageing online). Of the 454 (of 811) [56% (95% CI 53–59)] geriatricians who had cared for patients with living wills, 280 (62%) had cared for patients...
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Observations of Physician, Patient and Family Perceptions of Informed Consent in Houston, Texas Get access
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Volume 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 225–236, https://doi.org/10.1076/jmep.29.2.225.31504
Published: 01 January 2004
... bypass a formal surrogate decision maker to gain input from others, including their own view of what is in the patient's best interest. consent in Texas informed consent living wills surrogate decision making Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
2004, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 225–236
Observations...
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Advance directives and living wills
Postgraduate Medical Journal, Volume 74, Issue 869, March 1998, Pages 151–156, https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.74.869.151
Published: 01 March 1998
... 1998;74:151-156 C) The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, 1998 Medicine and the law Advance directives and living wills Kevin Stewart, Lesley Bowker Summary Under certain circumstances, living wills or advance directives may carry legal force in the UK. This paper traces the development of advance...
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A Method for Increasing Elders' Use of Advance Directives Get access
The Gerontologist, Volume 34, Issue 3, June 1994, Pages 409–412, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/34.3.409
Published: 01 June 1994
... preferences. Living wills Interdisciplinary Self-determination End-of-life treatment decisions Practice Concepts.
Nancy L. Wilson, MA, Editor
Copyright 1994 by Most published studies report that few elderly people have...
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Thermoregulation in Free-Ranging Whip-Poor-Wills Get access
The Condor, Volume 95, Issue 3, 1 August 1993, Pages 744–747, https://doi.org/10.2307/1369625
Published: 01 August 1993
...M. Brian; C. Hickey Present address: 132 North woods Cresc., Cornwall, Ontario K6H 6X3, Canada 26 10 1992 13 04 1993 The Condor © 1993 American Ornithological Society 1993 Whip-poor-wills Caprimulgus vociferus thermoregulation torpor energetics radiotelemetry goatsuckers 744...
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Advance Directives and the Elderly: A Study of Intervention Strategies to Increase Use Get access
The Gerontologist, Volume 33, Issue 3, June 1993, Pages 342–349, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/33.3.342
Published: 01 June 1993
..., especially with the group receiving a moderate level of materials plus an invitation to a meeting. Knowledge and use were also associated with race and education levels. The most common reason given for nonuse was deferring to others and putting it off. Living wills Surrogate decision making Educational...
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Wills and Dying Wishes Get access
John Parker
Published: 16 March 2021
...This chapter seeks to extend the discussion of writing and reading about death in the Gold Coast's late-nineteenth-century print media. It presents a crucial difference in these two uses of literacy: whereas newspapers were the principal medium of an emergent public sphere, wills — like...
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Published: 02 October 2003
... Huntingdon Selina Countess of Newark Best George Erskine Lady Anne Llangadog London West Bromwich Woodbridge Brussels Douglass Lord Germany Wills Thomas Coke Thomas Huntingdon Francis 10th Earl of Lindsey Theophilus Madrid Ostend Paris antinomianism Taylor William Bradford John Glascott...
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Ethical issues Get access
Derek Doyle and others
Published: 12 October 2000
... of caring and may help to foster a trusting relationship between patients and professionals. Advanced directives and living wills also form part of the ethical issues. General practitioners are often in the best position to discuss wills with the patients and their families. The last, yet most ethically...
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Uses, Wills, and Fiscal Feudalism Get access
Sir John Baker
Published: 18 September 2003
...This chapter examines property law related to uses, wills, and fiscal feudalism in England during the Tudor period. It discusses the conflict between landlords and tenants concerning land use, feoffment, and land revenue. The prevalence of uses therefore provoked a conflict of interests which could...
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Willing What God Wills: Eckhart and Aquinas Get access
Eleonore Stump
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Atonement
Published: 20 September 2018
... the Christ Eckhart Meister Holy Spirit human beings indwelling mind the psyche Trinity the union unity John Dante grace heaven life in grace religious orders salvation desire good the pleasure power suffering will the willing Augustine of Hippo evil fragmentation morality...
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Succession Get access
Peter Birks
Published: 14 March 2002
... the grant of administration’. The law of succession falls into four parts: one deals with the appointment and duties of personal representatives, one with wills, and one with intestate succession; and something needs to be said about the few situations where property may pass on death outside the law...
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Echoes of Contracts in the Hebrew Legal Fictions Get access
Sara J. Milstein
Published: 23 September 2021
.... Deuteronomy 25:5–10 makes for a particularly strong case study, in that it exhibits striking parallels to wills from the ancient city of Emar (modern-day Tell Meskene, Syria). Parallels in content between Deut 25:5–10 and the Emarite wills suggests that the biblical law was modeled on comparable Israelite...
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Published: 04 February 2021
... the gold Marlowe Christopher The Jew of Malta c 1590 jewels coins Lucretius Coryate Thomas Coryats crudities 1611 advice creditors “wolfish” Gonzaga Francesco society West William The first part of symboleography 1598 wills probate inventories Swinburne Henry A briefe treatise of testaments...
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Retrenchment Get access
Patricia Fortini Brown
Published: 02 April 2021
... investitures testament Bishopric wills debts With Michele’s death, the family had not only lost the key stronghold in Ceneda that it had enjoyed for four decades. Even worse, as is evident from the unpleasantness with Mocenigo, it was also heavily in debt. It was time to scale down. Aside from Villalta...
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“She was mistress of the house” Get access
Jane-Marie Collins
Published: 01 June 2023
... of mother and son in Salvador’s Aljube prison, and the city’s parish census data of 1855. Finally, using evidence from wills and testaments about the material wealth, commercial and cultural life of other women of colour, Chapter 5 contextualises the fortunes and speculates about the fate of mother and son...
