Probate Chaff: Or Beautiful Probate; Or Three Years Probating in San Francisco; A Modern Drama Showing the Merry Side of a Dark Picture (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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For the benefit of my numerous readers I will separate this beautiful court into its component parts and present them in the usual order of gradation, beginning with its immaculate head - the judge the vicegerent. Of widows, the partitioner of dead men's estates, a stainless being robed in ermine and crowned with indisputable power; its ponderous body, which consists of a great standing committee of law yers, whose numbers are as the leaves of the forest unnumbered and numberless; its tail - it has a tail entail (of horror to the initiated), composed of ex ecutors, appraisers, receivers, guardians, referees, clerks, auditors, reporters, publishers, bill-posters auctioneers, cartmen, criers, citors, witnesses, and sheriffs. None of these men are ever paid five hun dred dollars an hour or a day for their services - ah! No!

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