Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07

VI oiidil, Wy WOIu, SiSIlt lcL
ter or advertisement, solicit the pub
lie or any person to permit it to pre-
pare or cause to be prepared any will
or testamentary disposition or instru
ment of trust serving purposes sim
liar to those of will, or hold itself
out as desiring or willing to prepare
any such document, or to give lega
advice or legal services relatine
thereto or to give general legal adj
vice or counsel, or to act as attorney
at law or as supplying or being in q
position to supply the services of q
lawyer or lawyers; or shall to any
extent engage in or hold itself out as
being engaged in the business OF
supplying services of lawyer OF
lawyers; or shall cause to be pre-.
pared any persons will or testament
airy disposition or instrument of trust
serving purposes similar to those oil
a will, or any other legal document
for another person, firm or corpora
ton, and receive, directly or indi.
rectly, all or part of the charges
for such preparation or any benefits
therefrom or shall itself prepare, di.
rectly or through another, any such
document for another person, firm
or corporation, except as provided in
Co below.
(c) The foregoing shall not pro.
hlbit any one from drawing, without
charge for SO doing, any document
to which he, or a person whose EN-.
ploye he is or firm whereof he is a
member or corporation whose off.
Ger or employee he is, is a party, ex-
cept another's will or testamentary
disposition or instrument of trust
serving purposes similar to those OF
a will; and shall not prohibit a per-
son from drawing will for another
in an emergency wherein the immi.
nence of death leaves insufficient
time to have the same drawn and its
execution supervised by a licensed
attorney at law; and shall not pro-
hibit any one, acting as broker for
the parties or agent of one of the
parties to a sale or trade or lease
of property or to loan, from draw
ing or assisting in drawing, with or
without charge therefor, such papers
as may be incident to such sale,
trade, lease, or loan; and shall not
prohibit any insurance company from
causing to be defended, or from of
ferlng to cause to be defended
through lawyers of its selection, the
insureds in policies issued or to be
issued by it, in accordance with the
terms of such policies; and shall not
prohibit one such licensed attorney at
law from acting for several common
carrier corporations or any of its
subsidiaries pursuant to arrangement
between said corporations; and shall
not prohibit any bona fide labor or
ganization from giving legal advice
to its members in matters arising
out of their employment: and shall
not prohibit any person from confer
ring or cooperating with a licensed
attorney at law of another in pre-
pairing any legal document, if such
attorney is not directly or indirectly
in the employ of such person or of
any person, firm or corporation rep
resented by such person; and shall
not prohibit any licensed attorney at
law of Minnesota, who is an officer
Or employee of a corporation, from
drawing, for or without compensa-
ton, any document to which the cor
poration is party or wherein it is
interested personally or in a repre-
sentative capacity Except wills or
testamentary dispositions or instrl-
ments of trust serving purposes SIM
liar to those of a wild, but any
charge made for the legal work con-
nected with preparing and drawing
such document shall not exceed the
amount paid to and received and re-
I'D h1-e ~
torney shall net directly or indirectly
rebate the same to or divide the
same with such corporations; and
shall not prohibit any person or cor
poration from drawing. for or with
out fee, farm or house leases. notes
mortgages. chattcl mortgages. bills of
sale, deeds, assignments, satisfac-
tons or any other conveyances ex-
cept testamentary dispositions and
instruments of trust; and shall not
prohibit licensed attorney at law of
from rendering to a cor
poration legal services to itself at
the expense of one Or more of it's
bona fide principal stockholders by
whom he is employed and by whom
no compensation is directly or indi-
rectly received for said services, and
shall not prohibit any person or cor
poration engaged in the business of
making collections from engaging or
for the purpose of instituting and
suit or making proof of
claim of creditor in any case in
which the attorney at law receives
the entire compensation for such
work, and shall not prohibit any reg
ularly established farm journal or
newspaper, devoted to general news,
from publishing department of legal
questions and answers thereto, made
by licensed attorney at law, if no
such answer be accompanied or at
any time preceded or followed by any
charge for such answer, any disclos-
ure of any name Of the maker of any
answer, any recommendation of or
reference TO any one to furnish legal
advice or services, or by any legal
advice or service for such periodical
Dr. any one connected with it or sug-
sested by it, directly or indirectly.
Cd 1t shall be unlawful to exact,
charge or receive any attorneys fee
'or the foreclosure of any mortgage,
lnless the foreclosure is conducted
~ a licensed attorney at law of Min
lesota and unless the full amount
charged as attorneys fee is actually
paid to and received and retained BY
such attorney, without being directly
,r indirectly shared with Or rebated
% any one else, and it shall be I'M
awful for any such attorney to make
my showing that he has received
such a fee unless he has received
he same or to share with or rebate
o any other person, firm or corpora
ion such fee or any part thereof
'eceived by him; but such attorney
nay divide such fee with another
licensed attorney at law maintaining
lis own place of business and not an
'fficer or empl6ye of the foreclosins
party, if such attorney has assisted
n performing the services for which
he fee is paid. or resides in a place
'ther than that where the foreclos-
Ire proceedings are conducted and
las forwarded the case to the attor-
ley conducting such foreclosure.