AN INTERESTING POINT
Special to Telegraph.
TESTATORS AND THEIR BEQDESTS. ESTATES LEFT >. TO GRANDCHILDREN.
AUCKLAND, This day. "As a matter of general interest, why is it that testators so often leare their children a small life interest and the whole of theip estate to their grand-children?" asked Mr ' Justioe Smith during the hearing of a wijl case in tbe Supreme Court. Mr McVcagh said that he did not know why as he had no personal knowledge of the history of the ca-se before the court "It seems to be'the general form that the legal profession adopts," said His Honour. Mr Johnstone : It is a stock form. His Honour pointed out that it meant that testators gave the hulk of their canita-1 estate to the grandchildren,. of whom they know nothins. Mr Johnstone said that it was the same with regard to marriage -^ettlements.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 214, 10 October 1929, Page 5
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143AN INTERESTING POINT Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 214, 10 October 1929, Page 5
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