While most legal business, in both branches of the profession,
has dwindled to almost nothing, solicitors, at any rate, are being kept much busier than usual over one not very lucrative activity, the making of wills. The reasons are obvious. A certain number of people still regard will-making as a kind of prelude to the grave, in spite of the fact that, as the Quakers put it, " the making of a will in time of health can shorten no man's life," but realisation of the trouble and loss that may be inflicted on relatives by intestacy is coming home now to this type as much as to anyone. And most people who made their wills years ago, when they were married, or when their first children were born, are reviewing things again (partly in view of depreciated securities) and making new wills, or at least adding codicils. For everyone with dependants it is obviously an imperative and most serious duty. • * *
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