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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1928.

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WILLS AND WIVES

WOMAN'S RIGHTS IN ENGLAND

Ă CURIOUS POSITION

THE CHINA MAIL,

Under the will of a rich man re cently his son receives £13,400 a year, but the son's interest is to I be "restricted to him personally and not passed to his wife or issue."

Hla nim seems to have missed fire, for probably the daughter-in-law will enjoy her lutsband's Income for most, if not the whole of her life, and it is upon the grandchildren reared in luxury, that the weight will fall.

-Nor is this right of free teata oft with or without—the pro- mentary disposition hallowed by verbial shilling, It is always tha immemorial custom even in Eng-privilege of the child to be trouble- land. From the time of the Con- some and of the parent to forgive: quest for a long period there was Perhaps the strongest objection practically no power to dispose of is that raised by a friend on whom law by will, and one realises how I inflicted my views on this sub- much this meant when one rejoet. "Poor man," she said, "how members how little wealth there is ha to get any attention from his was apart from land. But fathers wife or children if he cannot wished to provide for their younger threaten to cut them out of his sons, and perhaps even their will ?". daughters. An Indirect method Well, I don't suggest that all his of making s will by means of what property should be earmarked. was called a Uso, arose, and the He might still have enough to give Church protected it. It was not to make it worth while to be nice until 1672 that the power of to him I testamentary disposition extended to all land.

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GODDARD CASE

LORD BYNG & SIR A. BODKIN CONFER

M.P.s' QUESTIONS -*

the

Rule Against Perpetuities So the principle arose, but Eng- I am reminded of a man who lish law was not entirely and per. "Can anyone tell me,” Sir fer- alarted life poor, and made his manently convinced," A man bert Morgan asks in a London le in the approved romantic many decide what shall become of paper, "why people persist in still

A series of qucations was asked fashion (declares R Woman rister, in the "Daily Chronicle"). time after his death, but not for dinner?

bar-hi possessions for quite a long separating men and women after in the House of Commons regard- Just as the coffee anding the £12,000 which Sir. Wil- His desire was to leave a name ever. The rule against per liquors are making people feel at liam Joynson-Hicks, the Home behind him, so when he came to petuities has long limited the their best the sexes are herded into

Secretary atated recently, had make his will be proposed to give, period of his control to the lives separate compartmenta and the been found In possession of ex- his mansion to found a charitable of persons living at his death and flow of conversation broken." He Station Sergeant Goddard, of the institution bearing his name, und 21 years after their deaths. More argues that since women

Vine-street division of the bulk of his. fortune to endow it, recently (in 1892) the Thelluson smoke and since it is no longer Metropolitan Police. THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB making senreely and prevision for Act further limited the period for considered necessary for men to tell Goddard was recently dismissed

his wife.

which he might direct that his pro- queer-generally conventional-after pleading guilty to various "She was poor enough when 1 party should accumulate. This stories in order to prove that they charges. The money is held by married her, and that will do for Act was the result of the will of were good sportsmen, they might be the Home Secretary. her," he argued forgetting that the one Peter Thelluson, who direct allowed to entertain each other. -Sir Vivian Henderson, Under- Secretary to the Home Office, re- plying to Mr. Johnston (Soc.. Dundee), said that inquiries were proceeding with all the despatch possible into the case of Goddard, 'Lord Byng, the Commissioner of Police, was in consultation with Sir Archibald Bodkin, the Director of Public Prosecutions, in the matter. No decision had yet been come to.

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ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS PARTICULA by Public Auction

to be held on MONDAY, the 31st day of December, 1928, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Gov- ernor, of ane Lot of Crown Land at Mong Kok Tsui, in the Colony of Hong Kong; for a term of 75 years. with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King. for one further term of 75 years.

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mansion was her home as well as his.

English law permits a man to leave all he has to charity or to a stranger or to a mistress, and make no provision whatsoever for wife or children, even though the wife may have helped to earn the, for tune, as the wives of so many bus)- ness men do.

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ad that his property should ac cumulate till his sons and all their descendants who were living at his death should themselves be dead, which meant, of course, that they could never enjoy any of it.

What now concerns us is that the right of absolute testamentary } disposition, like so many of our shibboleths, is an upstart, if not a myth. And, after all, on what principle of "common sense of justice does it rest?

When a man

It is rather a curious position. While a man is alive, and might possibly wish to keep all his money behind him; he cannot protect is dead he has left his possessions for himself, the law compels him to share some of it with his wife them; he does not even own them (except under special circum-(though his legal representative. stances), but when he is dead, and does); it is difficult to see why he therefore unable to enjoy any of should still control them

it himself, his power of disposition over it is absolute; he can prevent his wife from receiving a penny of

The Proverbial Shiling

It may be argued that a rule securing some proportion of a .it. The law of intestacy reman's estate on his death to his

by the lending passenger instructions to sell by Public cognizes the claims of wife and wife and children could be defeated

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STANDARD TIME.

SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG KONG

Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong for December, 1928, (standard time of the 120th Mori- dian, East, of Greenwich), is na follow:--

Dec.

28

Sunrise, Sunset.;

a.m.

11.03.

7.02

5.48"

7,02 5.48

7,02 6.49

$7.08

5,49,

THE Undersigned have received

Auction

ON

MONDAY, 31st December, 1928, commencing at 11 am.

at Holt's Wharf, Kowloon.

60 Cases Brandy. 71. Kegs Dyes.

children, and even of more, distant relatives, but we seem to regard the right of testamentary diapoal tion as sacred, like the British Con- stitution.

It is not, however, a right 'essential to civilized society. Under Roman law, if the testator did not do his dtuy by his children, the State did it for him. In Scot- LAMMERT BROS.,

land, too, they do things better than Auctioneers.in England; also in many other

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by death-bed gifts. But some such rules as those by which bankruptcy law has met aimilar evasions might well apply, and, of course, wives who were un- faithful or who deserted their husbands should be held thereby to defeat their claim.

very

Unworthy children ure a more difficult problem. . But I much doubt whether any father really and in cold blood wishes to cut his child, however ungrateful,

As Lava Crept Nearer

This remarkable photo shows citizens of Mascali, Sicily, gathered about the status of their patron saint, 'praying as molten lava from Mount Etne zumbled nearer their homes, destroying everything in its path. Inset, a peasant woman rendered insane by the disaster.

Mr. Johnston: Why has it taken so long to decide upon a prosecu- tion in this case when the Home Secretary felt so strongly about it that he appropriated £12,000?

Sir Vivian: I am not aware the Home Secretary has appro- priated £12,000.

Several Members: He says so. What have you done with the money.?

Sir Vivian: The fact that A certain amount of money Was found in the possession of an in- dividual and has been impounded has nothing to do with the question of whether that individual should be prosecuted for bribery.

Years of Inquiry

Mr. Hayes (Soc., Edge Hill) asked whether the delay was due to the fact that the inquiries arising out of this case would now have to cover a period of years and that other issues might pos sibly arise.

Sir Vivian: I think that is quite likely..

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