AN ANOMALY IN JUSTICE.
“It is merely childish to demand that a man should be allowed to ‘do what lie likes with bis own.’ Since we do not allow a man to do what lie likes with Ins own dog or bis own drainpipes, it seems a curious anomaly that we should allow him to turn bis wife and children into beggars by a stroke oT his pen. And this is all the more curious now that the power of the dead man over Ids fortune is so much restricted in the other direction. Steeper and steeper death duties have already considerably altered the outlook of rich men’s sons, and given the amassing of vast wealth a national as well as a domestic significance. —“ Evening Standard.’’'
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1927, Page 3
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126AN ANOMALY IN JUSTICE. Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1927, Page 3
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