[17] Black. III, 95.
[18] Matt. Paris, fo. 56.
[19] Idem, fo. 161.
[20] 1 Strange 667.
[21] Black. II, ch. 32.
[22] Hale, Hist. of Com. Law, 28.
[23] Greenleaf, Evid., vol. I, §26.
[24] Lord Hardwicke, in Ross v. Ewer, 3 Atk. 156, said: “There is nothing that requires so little solemnity as the making of a will of personal estate. There is scarcely any paper writing that will not be admitted as such.”
[25] Moore, 177.
[26] Cro. Eliz. 100.