The sun., 1916-11-09
THE ART OF MAKING A WILL salts.
FACTORY TO THE COURT.
Persons Unlettered In the Law Should Entrust Only to Lawyers the Fran.
ing Of Their Last Testaments.

OF a misguided individual such 4 paner
gives him a surprising degree o,
confidence. All he has To- do is NJ, in
"a name or two. date the paper. have
witnesses sign their names. and ,o. he
has before his very eyes completed .
long dreaded task-made his wIl,
But such n will.
Ordinarily the defects In tcstamen.s
arc common defects. Some one mr.
more OF them appear in the average
will. Suppose John Jones wishes (,
make a will. lie wishes to leave he
entire estate to his wife; verify. there
Is no need in his mind of going 10 IN.
office Of a good attorney for the prep.
aration Of so simple "A document. lie
draws his own instrument or resorts
to one OF the methods before men.
toned. IL IL easily possible that his
wife will predcceasc him. What ~
his estate. especially II he has died
possessed OF real estate and some q,
his children have not yet attained
troir majority? All that need hc sad
in a case of this sort Is that Il wise
and we'll informed lawyer would have
prepared a document which would
have met the contingencies. The viii
mentioned while not void is II not the
slightest value. | have - friend. Il
business man in Baltimore. VINO for
a good many years has had THIS legend
upon his stationery: equality cudu-cs
long after price is forgotten" II this
could he impressed upon the minds NJ
all men who are confronted with the
task OF will making there would 10
far less money expended in tho long
run and the administration Of estates
would be vastly simplihed. There =
nothing that will SO safeg lard an IS.
tate and give the executor the help
which he always needs. and which ne
fnds In a we'll prepared, complete NJ.
DERBY last will and testament.
Another most common defect G tee
tamentary writings Is the omission -
an executor. Certain things are or
dered done. but not a word u con.
tained as To who shall perform these
duties. Again the probate court must
come 10 the rescue and additional ey-
pense Is incurred and time wasted
Not one will in 500 provides FOR ~"
appointment Of an alternative cNccn-
tor, a person to carry out is terms In
case the executor has died Def 70 the
testator. or dies or becomes iucapa'-
,ated before the work OF adminis,ra.
ton is fulfilled.
The omission Of essential. and the
inclusion OF non-essent!als is mos
common. To the lawyer groups ~
well sounding words nave a place IN
wills Of his preparing, and a god eN
ample Of this Is the tcstators vi
commit their souls to God. II 'hia
they make one request over which The
probate court has no control tbs
is an ancient fashion, but not by an
means one which has gone on, -
date. Filling up "a will with such a
provision as hat the testator's deh's
be paid. matters which would have 80
be done by his personal representa-"
in any event. and not including thin-'
of real importance never go hand ~
hand in the well prepared. well bs.'
anced will.
II is ever to he kept in mind tha' q
last Will and testament Is a priya'N
law for the disposition Of proper
after death. The prudent man ~
woman. il would naturally be suppose!
would lcgislate with wisdom. prudence
and caution. but people SO frequent
in the very first instance make A fa,t,
hlunder in the preparation Of tho ".
that the whole matter is n" who
calls for "A warning in advance.
Another foolish method is ynovir-
the will of some friend or acuIa4n'aryo
and making II your own. TIL" average
person appears to have the !l,i 'ti'
with such a Will prohated it can thu
be followed with safety. such q ar"r
may ave been prepared with 'ho ~
most care 10y a prominent attorney
who may have made a deep stliv =
MS subject. hut he was not rr"parir-
a Will for any person other than ina
testator. Nor was his work intended
nor should II Zoe taken AS q pi,cod,r'
FOR other wills. What would Nua So
OF n doctor who gave but one sor. -
medicine Ia each ~ his patients:
\ we'll known lawyer before a rt-
cent convention. while doaiiu. Wy =
certain phase Of the suli,D' - W.
drawing, had this TO say:
The sins of safe and uusalr!
wills are the typical sins of ou sSio'
commission. Nine OUT If tcr Do
fects and antiquities are d~.>ruN,-aN,.
on the face of a viii and the tor.h IL
usually found AT no great Gis'.r.,
Thoy are in the plan Of II" VIII. T',v
are hidden in the words used ,rs!s. I
and not used, They arc tho germs -
Strif". Their fruit i suffcri,s ,o-