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Isn't that why wills are written while people are still alive, and executed as they die? Isn't that why it's called the last will? Not "extending the will of th
by mjfl 10y ago
Isn't that why wills are written while people are still alive, and executed as they die? Isn't that why it's called the last will? Not "extending the will of the dead" isn't any kind of legal principle anyways. It's absurd. We don't rewrite every law after the people that wrote it died, come on.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> We don't rewrite every law after the people that wrote it died Sure, for one reason for convenience. But Jefferson, it must be noted, wanted something similar for every law and Constitution (time based, because the alternative is impractical), specifically because the law should represent the will of the people living under it, not the dead hand of the past generation. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch2s23.html http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch2s23.h...