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Show End of al Long Lawralt.' ' An extraordin&jy lawsnit, which commenced com-menced Sept. 13, 1768, has just been con sluded, after haying lasted 121 years, la ;he year 1410 Bishop Domendy, of Ncu-ffa, Ncu-ffa, in northern Hungary, died, leavi..- his immense estates to his family. Owing, however, to the Turkish invasion of Hungary at that time, the bishop's relatives rela-tives were unable to rake possession of the property. After the invasion it was found that the number of persons who had a right to share in the property wa upward of a thousaud. As they were unabjo to agree among themselves as to the division of the estates, es-tates, an appeal was made to the law. The courts of justice were so afraid of doing injustice by precipitate action that all the original heirs, and even the next two generations, had passed away before a decision was arrived at. Meantime the expenses of the law and administration had to be paid, and while these have well nigh swallowed up the once vast fortune, the heirs have increased in number to more than 2,000. Now that the judgment judg-ment of the court has been delivered, the bishop'a descendants find that property that should have now been worth probably prob-ably a quarter of a million has melted down to something over 3,000, out of which they havo still to pay a lawyer's bill of 1000. This will leave the" fortunate for-tunate heirs at least a sovereign apiece. London Standard. ' |