Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1880 — Law of Entail. [ARTICLE]

Law of Entail.

Americans have a level way of looking at things. In conversation with an American on the subject of entail, it was remarked, “But, after all, you have the same freedom of bequest and inheritance as we have; and, if a man tomorrow chose in yonr country to entail

a great landed estate rigorously, -what could you do ?” The American answered, “Set aside the will on the ground of insanity!”