Pennsylvania Orphans' Court Commonplace Set-8 Vol.
AUTHORS: HON. DAVID A. HUNTER, (Dec'd); M. PAUL SMITH, (Dec'd); J. BROOKE AKER (Dec'd)
Current supplementation and revisions by:
JUSTIN C. ESPOSITO of Ballard Spahr.
8 Volumes, Case Bound and Perfect Bound.
Published: 1939; 1971 - 2024
Most recent supplement/update: 2024 Supplement, released Feb. 2024; $209.00
Revised Volume 1; released Jan. 2022; $189.00 Revised Volume 5; released Dec. 2016; $188.00
Revised Volume 3; released Dec. 2015; $177.00
Revised Volume 1; released Dec. 2008; $149.00
ISBN: 1-887024-53-0
A standard law office reference for answering all questions on PA Orphans' Court law. It has been called a veritable "one sentence encyclopedia" in the field, which quickly provides the law as it exists TODAY in the Orphans' Court as defined in the statutes and cases.
BACKGROUND
The first edition, published in 1939, was thirty-three years in the making. It was originally compiled by Judge Hunter through the years he was law clerk in the Orphans' Court of Philadelphia County as necessary and desirable in his everyday work, and quickly became a standard law office reference in daily use throughout the State. Twenty years later in 1959 the Second Edition was published to preserve the authority and integrity of the text.
REVISION SCOPE
The second edition combined the completeness of reference with a new, modernized form of listing citations. Judge Hunter rearranged the material and Messrs. Smith and Aker completed the work to include new references to Fiduciary Review, Restatement of the Law and articles in the various Pennsylvania law reviews. There are complete cross-reference tables between each edition and a complete table of cases and general index. The supplements contain complete cross-references to sections of the Probate, Estates and Fiduciaries Code, and to the Revised Pennsylvania Orphans' Court Rules.
In 1971 the supplements had grown to such an extent that it was felt advisable to gradually revise the Second Edition a volume at a time. The following are the current revision dates for each book:
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS
Volume 1 (2008)
| Absentees and Presumed Decedents Accumulation of Income Adoption Advancements Aliens Annuities Appeals Assignments Attorney and Client Bankruptcy Bills and Notes Cemetery Lots Charities Codicils Commissions Conditional or Contingent Wills Conditions Conflict of Laws Contests of Wills Contract to Make a Will Contracts Conversion |
Volume 2 (1999)
| Corporations Costs Debts of Decedents Distribution Domicile Donatio Mortis Causa Election by Spouse Election in Equity England Escheat Estates Estate Tax Evidence Execution of Wills Executions by Creditors Executors and Administrators Family Agreements |
Volume 3 (2015)
| Family Exemption Fiduciaries Forgery Fraudulent Conveyances Funeral Gifts Inter Vivos Gravestone Ground Rents Guardian and Ward Husband and Wife Incapacitated Persons Income Tax |
Volume 3A (1989)
| Inheritance Tax Injunctions Insurance Intestate Act Inventory Issues to be Tried by a Jury Joint and Mutual Wills Judgments Kinship |
Volume 4 (1986)
| Leases Legacies and Devises Legitimacy and Illegitimates Life Tenant and Remainderman Limitations of Actions Liquor Licenses Lost Wills Mariners' and Soldiers' Wills Marriage Masters Merger Mortgages Nuncupative Wills Orphans' Court Partition |
Volume 5 (1990)
| Partnership Payment Payment into Court Perpetuities Personal Property Taxes Powers of Appointment Powers of Attorney Powers of Revocation Powers of Sale of Real Estate Precatory Words Price Act Probate of Wills Public Assistance, Support Register of Wills Remainders Renunciation, Disclaimer Republication of Wills Res Judicata Review Revocation of Wills Sales of Real Estate Set Off Specific Performance Statutes Subrogation Sureties Trustees |
Volume 6 (2004)
| Trusts Trusts Inter Vivos United States Vested and Contingent Interests Wills |
Volume 6A (1994)
| Table of Cases Index |