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Show May Change His Own Name i Can Be Done Legally Without Re-courae Re-courae lo Court of Law Several Notad Inatancaa Cited. New V. nk. City Court , JiibHck Fln. llto haa J 1 1 r. t III. il an opinion turned upon etliauallvii reacarch, llllillial nml otherw lm In ilenylng na npi'lli'iitlon by lv.riini,l Kllloit llur-ei. llur-ei. ln, ii lawyer of MS Went Ouo llun ilred mid SUtyllllh atreet, for per tnlMHlon lo chuliKi. Ilia liiillin tn llur-alon. llur-alon. by which iimuii he waa known lu college. While the application wna ileiiU'il only heciitiae the papora were liuilly. tho court held Hint It la not iieci-'Hin-y to bother aouie court when you want lo change your niiuie. A limn limy legally timno hlmaelf or acquire ac-quire a name hy reputation, generul Uhiige. and habit. ; Juatlce l''lnellio iiietitloiia peraona known to hlatnry who chttiiKcd their namea wlttiout recourae to luw, among them rri'nl.l.'iii Cleveland, who dropped drop-ped Stephen from before drover, and rrealileni llriuit, wlin hnd tho inline llliiiui before llyaiiea dropped thioiiKh thn error of Hie recorillng olllcer at Weal Point when be en- , tered there. Jiitnea 11. Mmihewa and Jumea n. Taylor dropped the .lamea and becume known na llrnniler Mitt-tliewa Mitt-tliewa and llayiird Taylor. The bap-ttamnl bap-ttamnl name uf llonore de llalxnc waa Ouez, Mautlce llnrrymore'a wna Herbert Her-bert lllytlie, Henry Irving wna John II. Mroadilb and Henry M. Htauluy waa John Itowinnd. Juatlce Ftnollte aaya that In llllillcal tlinea Iho conferring of namea waa generully connected with aome clr-cuniatance clr-cuniatance of birth. Several of Jacob'a anna got their nnmea In thla manner, the name being choaen genorally by the tr.fiilier, while occualonally the father r ivo It. and aometlinea othera than pareuta gave It, na In Ihe eaaa of Soliimiin. Ileforn the cilia ejill-dreii ejill-dreii aeetn never to have been nagied lifter their n'latlvea, the courl aaya, nud n i of the twenty one (nK1 of Juilah wna niiiiieit alter a pretlecea-aor pretlecea-aor or after llavhl, the fuiin,er 0f the fiiiully. The curl aaya that aa the Jawa aiiroail lliriuiKh the lan.l lior.lerlug on the .Me.llt.iiuneuu they drew upon other l.i, it'iim.'B for perauual namea, while retaining lllt.lt.nl (i,.,. and auch new million b, eauie IHipiji.tr In Ituly. reralii. Aruhln niul Turkey Ihla led to Ihe adoption of two numea.iine for civic purpoaea ami the m, 'r for Hebrew doruiiieiila In Kj,; u ju,. tllull giivenimelil con, i, ,. j t,9 jwi tu uilopt aurmiii'ea. |