A NICE POINT.
Can a man sin in his grave? Mr Justice Edward, thinks he can. In giving judgment at Wellington yesterday on an application under th_ Testator's Family (Maintenance Act, his Honour said: "I think the Act of 1900 should be treated, in practice at ail events, as being primarily for the benefit of those who would have had a claim against the testator if be were living. I do not say whether or not the statute ia limited in iis application to these parsons; -b.it, however that may be, I certainly consider that where tbe provisions of the statute of 1900 are invoked, such persons aro ratitl-rl to preference over those who may po.-i.iblv come within the statute, but who would h*_vc had no claims against the testator if he were living. Tho Legislature has entrusted to tho Court the duty of -_eing that a testator does not sin in his grave by Icaving those whom nature has made dependent upon him unprovided for, and this duty is prop.rly discharged by providing in the first place for those who were dependent upon the testator and to whom the law gave rights against him in his lifetime."
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10955, 3 May 1901, Page 5
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198A NICE POINT. Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10955, 3 May 1901, Page 5
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