WIFE'S BEQUEST
" BLESSINGS AND THANKS " A bequest in a will read in a London court lately was:—" To my dear husband, who does not need money, I leave my blessings and thanks." Mr. Justice Eve: No duty payable on that, I suppose. Counsel uppeanng for the husband—who disputed tho will on Hie ground that property disposed ol belonged to him—agreed. " It is a bequ.est that is difficult to understand," he added, " as tho husband had borrowed money from his wife to carry on his farm."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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85WIFE'S BEQUEST New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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