General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Original Publisher: Stevenson Subjects: Great Britain History / Europe / Great Britain Medical / Health Care Delivery Medical / Health Policy Medical / Public Health Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 1 WILLS OR TESTAMENTS, Testaments or Wills are of essential importance as a means of Wills or Tus- preventing disputes about the proper succession to property and taments. wealth, – as to whom this or that may belong to, and Vho has a right to this, that, and the other article. By making a will, in general all disputes about to whom anything left by a deceased person belongs to, are summarily settled by referring to the will. There are disputes and disagreements among distant relations towards near ones, about they would have got this, that, and the other thing, if there injurious had been a will. They say they ought to have got it, and have as results from good a right to it. as it was always intended and promised, or half
making promised or hinted at by their deceased friend that they were to get it. It is also a cause of unseemly disputes and unholy estrangements, hatred, and dislike between brothers and sisters, and their mother, the want of a Will, as they suppose their older brother or others have received more than they ought to have got, and that they have got less than their right, or what they should have got; some perhaps from having been a principal help and means of making the money, others from the care they took of it, and of the person of the deceased, and from their being constantly with their parents, while the others were away or looking after their own interest or affairs. It often happens, from this want of a …