The Orphan's Legacy: or, a Testamentary Abridgement is a treatise on the law of inheritance by English jurist and writer John Godolphin.

[1] The book was an important source of legal knowledge for courts and scholars in 17th and 18th century England.

[3] In 1694 the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, recommended the first edition in a letter to his friend, Quaker dissident John Rodes.

[4] In modern times it has been used by courts and scholars as evidence of the historical English law of wills and inheritance.

[5] For example, in a 1911 case involving the killing of actress Cora Crippen the book was cited for the "old law" that a killer could not inherit from his victim.