POINTS ANENT WILLS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 93, 1 April 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

POINTS ANENT WILLS.

"There are several points alxjut wills that the avcrauß. man .knows nothing «’f. ’ remarked w famous law ver to a reporter. "For hwtianre.’’ lie continued, “if ever yon are asked to witness a will, see beforehand that you are not a legatee If you are. and act as witeere. the legacy- will be void. “Again, the only executions to the role .hat all wills most be in writing are wills regarding personal estate made by soldiers in actual military service. or seamen is sea. Military and tarsi officers of all ranks are included in this exception. “It is well to know. too. that if after making a will a testator geu married. the will is automatically revoked. “Minors, idiots. lunatics,* and perrens imbecile from disease, ok! age, or drunkenness, arc legally incapable of making a will. Ore who is born deaf and dumb is presumed by the law to he an idiot; Inr if it can fie proved that he knows what »e'.* about lie may declare hi* will l>v signs and tokens. With a blind rerum #t,»> necessary to prove knowledge and approval of its contents. “Felon* are precluded from making wills from ihe tin-c of ixmviction, except as to trust property.” OBEYING ORDERS. TTie captain of « tramp steamer, when opportunity offered, and he could do «o without Jetting bis owners know «|nte how much he got for it, was in the habit of picking tin passengers for short runs between ports, and by this method had been often able to make a little bit for himself, which was pn*> by for a rainy dav. On one of tliese occasions one of there pas-etejers died, and, as he was a coloured man. the skipoer was in a cpiandary as to bow to disnore pronerly <J» the corpse, rolling the Imatswain up to ihe bridge. he gave the following orders t—“Be’snn. there’* a dead nigger in No. 25. aid as I don’t know* anything about the nigger fnneril s wire. you . better go in a* sain ts it gets dark and

roil him up in a bit of canvas, with ■ «.nc or t wo holy-tones, and quietly drop trim ever the “ Aye. ave. sir ’’ Th- next morning th" skipner went into No. '22 to sec if his order* h«d lon carried out. and to his astonishment there still tar tty dead man. Ko'sun. didn't 1 tell you to drop that dead nigger overboard from No. 22* I find he i» sAillAbere.” ‘•Veodr. so I did. sir. Then -a w* "f dismnv came over th® hoatwwam a r.w. ‘'Twenw-two. sir: I thought you -a«l thirtv-two. sir.” ton fool! Ruf what alioi’t Na. 32? Well. sir. 1 went into No. 32 and [ there was a ni-"»er m there. T -shook him and asked him if he was dead, and '• h*» Ml id ’No.' Rut. y-u know what liaff • .>)•»*• chops are, sir.’’

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