Wills and Will-Making in Anglo-Saxon England by Real property/realty - land which was held or possessed (seisin)
Chattels real - legal right to occupy land (eg leases for terms of years)
Chattels
Suggested starting points
Real Property: inheritance & estates in Baker's IECL Legal Hist B167a5 & check for index for chattels see p 386-7
The Oxford History of the Laws of England. Vol. 6, chap. 39. Prof Baker goes into more detail about transfer of title & working of doctrine of estates and chattels in early modern period.
Chapter 7 Testamentary Law and Probate Jurisdiction in the work below:
The History of Canon Law and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, 597-1649 by 
The Oxford history of laws of England v. 6. 1483-1558 by 
When Death Do Us Part : understanding and interpreting the probate records of early modern England by To find what books earlier generations of legal practitioners and their clients may have consulted, try the big digital libraries such as
EEBO (Early English Books Online) or ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
If you don't already have an author/title in mind, subject searches to try in both of the above are
Wills Great Britain
Forms (Law) Great Britain
Guardian and ward--Great Britain
Executors and administrators--Great Britain
In SOLO to find works about inheritance law use these words in subject search
Inheritance and succession early works
Executors and administrators
Limit by England also - then try again with Great Britain.
In SOLO subject search terms to try to find calendars of and works based on the documents/archives resulting from the legla requirements are
Wills -- England
Probate Records -- England
Inventories of decedents' estates -- England
Where a will was proved depended - to a large degree - on the 3 factors
For people of means
The Prerogative Court of Canterbury covered the south of England and Wales. It also dealt with wills involving property in both the south and northern provinces.
The Prerogative Court of York covered York, Durham, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Cumberland, Lancashire, Cheshire, Nottinghamshire and the Isle of Man.
For lesser people, try the local county record office for guidance as there were less grand diocesan courts.
In SOLO you may find that county historical societies have been active in producing indexes to (and sometimes transcripts of) surviving wills and probate inventories for their areas (Try Wills -- England -- county as a subject search)
You don't have to be a family historian to find the guide below useful!
Wills and Probate Records : a guide for family historians by