The office and dutie of executors. Or A treatise of wils and executors, directed to testators in the choise of their executors and contrivance of their wills [[electronic resource] ] : With direction for executors in the execution of their office, according to the law, and for creditors in the recovery of their debts. Expressing the duty, right, interest, power and authority of executors, and how they may behave themselves in the office of executorship. With divers other particulars very usefull, profitable, and behovefull for all persons, be they either executors, creditors or debtors. Compiled out of the body of the common-law, by Thomas Wentworth, late bencher of Lincolnes Inne

• Record Nr.: UNISA996390941903316
• Autore: Wentworth Thomas <1568?-1628.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed by T. C. for Andrew Crooke, Laurence Chapman, William Cooke, and Richard Best, 1641
• Edizione: [The third edition, corrected and inlarged.]
• Descrizione fisica: [28], 127, [1], 145-271, [1] p
• Soggetti: Executors and administrators - England; Wills - Great Britain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published anonymously; sometimes attributed to Sir John Doddrige (cf. DNB).; Title page is [para]2.; With a table of contents and marginal notes.; Text and register appear continuous.; Imperfect: quire A lacking leaf.; Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0167

Plant and animal endemism in California [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Harrison

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786241903321
• Autore: Harrison Susan (Susan Patricia)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-520-95473-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Disciplina: 581.9794
• Soggetti: Endemic plants - California; Endemic animals - California; Endemic plants - Ecology - California; Endemic animals - Ecology - California; Endemic plants - Conservation - California; Endemic animals - Conservation - California
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Biotic Uniqueness: An Overview -- 2. A Brief History of California -- 3. Plant Endemism in California: Patterns and Causes -- 4. Animal Endemism in California -- 5. Conservation Challenges in California's Endemic-Rich Landscape -- 6. Synthesis and Conclusions -- APPENDIX: Preliminary List of Plant Species Endemic to the California Floristic Province -- Literature Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: California is globally renowned for its biological diversity, including its wealth of unique, or endemic, species. Many reasons have been cited to explain this abundance: the complex geology and topography of its landscape, the special powers of its Mediterranean-type climate, and the historic and modern barriers to the wider dispersal of its flora and fauna. Plant and Animal Endemism in California compiles and synthesizes a wealth of data on this singular subject, providing new and updated lists of native species, comparing patterns and causes of both plant and animal endemism, and interrogating the classic explanations proposed for the state's special significance in light of new molecular evidence. Susan Harrison also offers a summary of the ; innovative tools that have been developed and used in California to conserve and protect this stunning and imperiled diversity.