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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. out the dispositions he desires to make of it, should be allowed to close his eyes in death with the assurance at least that a reasonable effort will be sanctioned by the law to sustain his will, at the expense of his own estate. If the share that would otherwise have gone to his next of kin shall be lessened thereby, it is presumably caused by the testator himself, who had the right, prima facie, to appropriate his property as he might see fit; and the formal execution of his will should ordinarily authorize his executor to use a reasonable part of his estate to establish and carry out that will." Among the authorities cited by the court is the Virginia case of Roy v. Roy, 16 Gratt. 418, where "costs" were allowed to an executor, in an unsuccessful suit to sustain the will. Other cases cited are: Meeker v. Meeker, 74 Iowa, 352; Phillips' Will, 81 Ky. 328; Day v. Day, 3 N. Y. Eq. 549; Lassiter v. Travis, 98 Tenn. 330; Comstock v. Hadlyme Ec. Soc., 8 Conn. 254. BANKRUPTCY.-The 1902.] 1902.] 651 651 NOTES OF CASES. NOTES OF CASES.