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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law, Relating to the Execution and Revocation of Wills, and to Testamentary Capacity: With an Appendix Containing the Wills Act, and a Number of Useful Forms of Wills
The idea of writing this work was suggested to me by the difficulty I experienced, when a student, of assuring myself of the true state of the law of this Province on the subjects treated of in the following pages.
There is probably no country in the world which can boast of a more perfect system of legal education than that established in Ontario, through the provident wisdom of the Law Society. To the Benchers of that body I, in common with others, owe a debt of gratitude for the efforts they have made in the cause of legal education. But students of law in this Province labour under the disadvantage of being obliged to use text-books which, unless very carefully studied, are likely to leave erroneous impressions. If we take up a modern English text-book, we will find in it a number of statutory provisions which have no place in our law; and we will fail to find in it the changes in the old law which have been effected in this Province by the legislation of eighty years.
To ascertain the true state of our law, the student must be care ful to disregard the English Statute law, as stated in the text books, and must search our own Statutes to ascertain the changes in the old law which have been effected in this country.
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