A LAWYER'S WILL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 25 April 1914, Page 12

A LAWYER'S WILL.

The late Mr Beven was a notable man amongst lawyers, specially known as the author of a remarkably able standard book, "Beven on Neeligonce." His will came the other day before the Chancery Division of the High Court m .London. He had made it himself, and it turned out that there were no fewer than ten points so doubtfully expressed that the beneneianes had to go through the trouble and expense of finding out what the Court thought it meant. Plenty of other lawyers have blundered "over making their wills—including a former President of the Probate Court. It is difficult to explain this, but apparently the payment of a fee has some magic power in sharpening legal wits though possibly the true psychological reason is that a really able and conscientious mipd is more minutely careful in what it does for others than in what it does for itself, though minds of an inferior order may be more likely to act in just the other way.