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Show IMPERFECT WILLS OF LAWYERS Lawyers sometimes have a special toast at their convivial gatherings, and it is. "To th0 man who makes his own will." The Idea is that the task is so technical and difficult that a badly drawn will is sure to lead to some litigation, and so benefit the lawyers generally. Homo-mado wills, prepared with a view to saving a fee of a guinea or so, have often led to litigation, long fought out, which has proved a small fortune to many a ' lawyer. I But what is to be said of a lawyer 1 who makes his own will, and makes such a hash of it that costly litigation (follows? Some queer cases of this' kind are on record. There ' was no more eminent lawyer than the late Lord of Heller, for many years the president of tho Probato Division of the High Court (then well known as Sir Francis Jeuno). He was surely r expert, if ever there was one, as was tho president of the very cour before which disputed wills wore tried. Yet he loft an imperfect will. .Mr. Lusnington, k. C, who was once Judge-Advocale-General, loft an Imperfectly attested will and codicil. But worse than this was the fact that his will and codicil were written on two separate sheets of notepapcr Among other well-known lawyers who left Imperfect wills wore Lord Grimthorpe, Henry Stephens, K C; Sir John Beckett, a former solicitor-general, solicitor-general, and Lords Brougham and Lyndhurst. The two last mentioned were each in their day the Lord High Chancellor, the very highest legal post in the country, and yet thev failed to leave behind them -a perfectly perfect-ly valid will. Many are tho suggestions made as to the causo of those remarkable cir-' cumstances. One suggestion is thatl lawyors love a joke as much as,' any Jfefl one, and better, because their prbfes- .jtfdKg slon is so dry, and a bit of humor Is JM like a ray of sunshine to their hearts, & and therefore they make anjmperfcct wr 'will as a last joke on their profession. 4 1 London Tit-Bits. fM t 4 |