Vindi ive Bequests in Wills give to my wife. the sur of one shilling to enable hey to buy a rope."?
This is a passage in the will of a testator who died at St. Leonard's in November. The will is wri throughout in his own handwritii and is dated Bristol, March 4, 1917, He leaves a freehold house at Norwich to a St. Leonard's nurse, £10 each to two ladies living at Clifton, Bristol, and the residue of his property to his step-sister, also living at Bristol.
Although wills are, as a rule, made with a due appreciation o their solemnity and importance, Women are not innocent of the ation of such clauses. One woman expressed herself concerning her relatives that nothing should come to them from her estate "save a bag of sand to rub themselves with—none deserve even a goodbye."
Most married couples, however, leave the whole, or the greater part. of their property to one another or to their children, although generally the portion of a surviving spouse is subject to reduction on re-marriage. Many men have stated in their wills that such deduction is not due to want of affection or with any intention of preventing a future alliance, but to protect their widows from undesirable fortune-hunters.
There is often a condition by ich a wife's portion is reduced the event of members of certain
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