Show ENGLAND ONCE BANNED WIUS customs regarding inheritance vary in different indifferent parts of world washington tt 11 lint becomes of a mans Iro property perty alien lie dies the answer Is very much a matter of geography a bulletin from tie national geographic 90 clety pointing ont out aar ing customs in different of the world in regard to aills ft ills and inheritance lime am e been arl aten in Air Arr erica since the days of the first fira colonist S 1 ris si s the bulletin and therefore me e are to assume thoughtlessly 1106 sly that ft i ill III making ex tends I 1 lick acl into history lil story and oi oer er the world as a un hersil institution Ws were laere made hy by some ancient peoples pretty much as they are t d but bill amot any tiny particular 1 L ot alu has developed only when a rather complex singe e of has been reached once prohibited in england in wills bequeathing lind sere ere entirely prohibited bv law bearg ngo ago although althou gli vey had before and nere later a al to pd in hance and aho alvil in all the dohani abdin countries only a part of one ones s property can be willed A hermese Hur mese buddhist cannot make a sill and in indle III mik ing has come to I 1 I 1 e recognized only as a result of Bri britni tili influence 1 and Is not bet et widell practiced among our primitive ancestors there was no such thing us as a will or even inheritance by a limited number of heiri because there was nothing to inherit or to mili all property ws wis community property U hen a man died he lie simply ceased to use uc the common property pool and without any formalities the tile su sun riling 1 ing members of the group continued to make use of it lien prante ownership of things and land came to be lecog clyed the gowning unit hillige hlll lige ige tribe or stile found thatis that it hail had to tike tile some ome action when a man died leming proper property tv if nothing bere ft ere done ancone an one ullo ft ho happened to be near or strang might seize the ownerless property een eien though he ft ere a cotil stringer to or evan an of its former owner trib al at concepts of fair came carne into pent lon and it was wai recognized that the lie dead mans family should have first claim to his former be 1 gl v fron ill fl devel p d t fl ru tim and laws of inheritance which hae lime taken varied and in wilie ta es ery nery complex forms in different parts if f the tile world the privilege of making tanking wills mas as glinted by the state a long time after inheritance cu customs arose it be con considered the anil cn il step in confirming the lion tion of private pr property perty rot not oil only ly vis ris an individual to have ownership and control of land and roods goods he was lins allie nut hilt he was to he to decide iv bo should enjoy them after 00 his fits death and to direct if he lali wished hel in great detail just how they should be utilized in borne some for centuries to come power greatest in england it if the privilege of making a will larks the power of the individual then I 1 bigland Is the worlds a a strong i rong lidd of individualism for in n no country Is the power to m will III so go un on aranin aled and so nearly complete by means of a properly drawn rind executed will voll an n can disinherit afie wife and children leav ing e all his property to a person wholly tholly outside his ills family lails english law was adopted the Abi american erlean colonies and the unite 1 states but in miny of the states the old rules have been al tit by legislation which provides that on the death of a mirriel man certain shares shall go to the vid id ow w and to the tile children and tint thit only the balance cau con be fillod 11 flay amay unrestrictedly in farice and nd the oilier other latin count countries nes here the tile legal systems E steins are on inn 11 ihmann 1 nan in law the rights of 1 law I aa and children hae liae been protected eted V na for many centuries against the will ing potter of the husband and father th er although varying limitations exist hie the power to will all or some property Is now recognized throughout christendom and the bolam medin countries in china japan and certain other lands this power granted to an owner omner to project his wishes into the future coupled with the unfortunate fact that ie le can know little of how society and its institutions ft develop has brought strange results in the cases of many aills alls one sympathetic maker of a will living in the seventeenth entee nth century en tury and contegni con conte terni ine ing the unpleasant fate of captives taken in the I 1 abt left a trust fund among other things la is supposed to be devoted today to the redemption of turkish prison erst ers will maken makers poor prophet prophets A philanthropist in st louis in pioneer dis left large real estate holdings in whit Is now the heart of that city the income to be demoted doted to helping stranded travelers on the way may to become bona file settlers in the aest est in recent lears ears the trustees hale been unable to find beneficiaries meeting the wills ills description and after much difficulty hae liae ailed on the courts to permit them to turn the tile income over to the local travelers aid society I 1 A classic case of poor prophecy Is found in the III dated abol of the founder of sailors snug harbor harboe in new ew lork city lie ile left a farm on manhattan island now represented by acres of busl business ness buildings as an endon endowment ment for or a home for superannuate superannuated seaman from sallan sall lD ln vessels steam came into use and booi there mere ere proc no old men from falling sailing cs es sels sets to seek entrance to the home courts filially finally permitted the trus tees managing the fund to tale in seamen from steam lessels es selb but eien so not enough sailors can con be found on aich to spend the golden stream that comes pouring in from froin the snug harbors valuable val prop artles some wills hae haie imposed aril arbi arary and even frivolous conditions to bequests but la in many cases the court courts lime upheld them one father left fl 9 legacy to hie his son on but provided that the gift be void old it if the eon son ever eer wre re a mustache another father bought sought to keep lila fits daughter daughters e family small by leaving a large amount of money la in trust and providing t that hat and increasing sums there after should be subtracted from the fund and glien git en to chairty at the birth of each child aills s haie set up funds for tho th benent of parrot parrots horses li goldfish and ani dogs recently in california a cat cut was nas left for life a handsome residence and a fund for maintenance trust funds exist in england to provide snuff and tobacco for certain hospitals to distribute loaves of bread on certain anniversaries and eien to scatter coins from graves customs change throw lights on changing customs and institutions blar IN washington ashington mother of george washington quite matter of factly willed to her grandson my negro mail frederick to him and his as signs forever also eight silver tablespoons ble spoons I 1 only since about low 1 automobiles have hae been left in to wills ills and in recent ears bequests of airplanes have appeared the oldest known will written on papyrus was i as prepared about B C 0 20 in egypt eg pt by its terms a priest left lit his I 1 property to a fellow priest both greece and home rome had manuscript wills in the seventh century wills in parts of europe were ere written on bark during anglo saxon times in Fri england gland wills were ere written it itten in triplicate the copies being consigned to three se pirate custodians at one time oral wills with no special ft ere as valid as written ants in 1 Hn ng gland land but it was ins found that fraud could creep in so easily that oral wills were ere permitted to be made only during the last sl sickness elness and only as regards personal property soldiers and mariners houel however tr are glien greater privileges leges as to oral wills in general in most countries wills ullis es specially ally those deposing of rea real I 1 es tate inist now be written ritten signed by the tile will viii maker and subscribed by two or more witnesses it nesses in the pre presence ence of the willm will makers alers the instruments are usually vr written itten or taped on ordinary piper but wills written on alp arst est an all material will III be valid in one case a it will was written on a 8 it df which ans removed from its ite hinges taken to court and duly p in the of the states of the united slates states only ordinary wills are fire tir provided for those signed ly by the will maker and open ly pre presented tented to the necessary wit uit nesses for their signature in nineteen states hoi however eier holographic wills are also recognized these are entirely in the handwriting of the will maker and tire signed by him and need not be witnessed in amele states in fait fat it Is not even necessary to date holographic wills ills in one state louisiana where the bisic bisle law Is of I 1 rench origin provision Is made for the most unusual will valid in the united states the mystic or secret will such uch a will III Is not openly presented to witnesses but Is sealed up tit by the ii maker inker and then presented to a notary and sev en witnesses who nho all sign their names on the envelope the law that has grown up around the making interpret interpretation aaion and of wills ills Is extremely complex in general houett itie die courts seek merely t to 0 determine whether hether a will h lawful and what the intention of the maker was nas and then sidle to put all 1 intentions into effect |