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UNCLAIMED MILLIONS.
"Take the case of the Page Millions. The property involved is alleged to extend from Header to the Marable Arch-10,000 Bores. It is possible that there may be some ghost of a claim from one of the Page descodanty to this "property; but when one considers that the last known. Page died a hundred years ago it is almost impossible in law to establish may sort of claim which would hold water. For decades the property has been unclaimed by the Page-whoever they may be and there would be no greater injustice than to turn out the present owners, who have developed the estates, in order to give pos session to a claimant who may prove that ho is one of the original Pages
With regard to the Fazackerley Mil lions, it is interesting to note that Mr. Honry Fazackerley, a solicitor and a des cendant of the late Nicholda Fazuckerley, M.P., is not numbered among the present claimants But there are 70 other pople. who all imagine that they are entitled to the bonents:
"The aggregate amount of dormant funds existing in this country is about £1,490,000, distributed over more than 4,100 separate accounta Considerably more than half of these funds do not ex coed. £150 in value.
In the first place, it is curious to observe that claimanta never seem to have the least doubt that the fortune is there 'somewhere." Doubt as to its existence never seems, to enter into their heads-the difficulty in proving their right to its inheritance is the only thing that seems to exercise their minds, and they are will- ing to pay all sorts of sums to prove what seems after all, to be of secondary import- auce. The estate, they conceive, is usually huge sum which has lain dormant for a hundred years or more, the capital increas ing at compound interest.
FATHETIC FAITH.
"Such faith were pathetic if it did not ment expense to people who can ill afford to lose what they have, and yet, like dram drinking, treasure hunting is very difficult to cure. Reasoning is of no use claimanta only suspect you have base reasons of your own for trying to put them off. Ah! if
I had my rights 1 should be riding in my carriage' a fixed saying of a number of persons, and some other peoplo trade on this.
"The curious point is that you never zuret anyone who can tell you the fucts at first hand; they have always heard of them from a more or less distant relative who is now dead, and the most obvious questions were never put to him,
The aged relative
was either very careless, lethargic, or ignorant, Ho preferred to be mysterious and let the precious yearsE
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miving w3l or marriage certificato which
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Again, there is the austere relative of
a religious turn of mind, who opined that the love of riches was the root of all evil. and immediately destroyed all evidence, so that the descendants should not be con- taminated by filthy lacre-to the regret of of his great nephews, who have no such qualms, but on the contrary would prefer á hit on nociuat. When you point out that the Government has for many years now published a list of all the funds in Chan- cery and that a dog-cared copy of it can
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STATUTE OF. LIMITATIONS, Sometimes the fortune is not in money but in land-buge estates now built ou, in or around London or the Jargo provin cial towns. You. out that one of
the oldest of the Common Law maxims ís that the law helps the diligent, not the idle But they shake their heads. You explain that there is such a thing as a Statute of Limitatious, which after a com- paratively short term of years can be pleaded on the grounds that the real own er has been naked for the money or land or taken any trouble to get an acknowledg- ment of the debt or any legal steps to on- foros putra
They avver take preliminary definite or practical stops to and who occupies a single house on the land ne a test of the story. They nover, äsk the tonant to whom he pays his rent, they are confont to say It's in wang hands, if the truth be kaown."
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