Notes on Some Interesting Wills

In treating of this subject no attempt is made to deal with wills analytically or with much technicality. Rather is it the writer's aim to call attention briefly to some wills, ancient or modern, which stand out from the great mass for one reason or another. It would be easy to enlarge this into a treatise on the general theories of will-making; of the customs of different times and localities which sanctioned this or that form,-of nuncupative wills, holographic wills, and the secret or mystic testament provided for by the Louisiana Code, which is sealed up by the testator and, so sealed, delivered by him to a notary in presence of seven witnesses, all of whom, and the notary, write their names on the envelope. But it is not the process of will-making which we are to consider; we are simply to note some unusual specimens of wills which have been made.