Funny Wills . . .

Number 1:
An Irish Will: 'To my wife, I leave her lover, and the knowledge that I was not the fool she thought me; to my son I leave the pleasure of earning a living. For 20 years he thought the pleasure was mine; he was mistaken.'

Number 2:
Income from a cash bequest left to Jesus Christ should he make a second coming was handed to the Crown in 1997. The bequest, made by Ernest Digweed, stipulated that the income from his investments should be paid to the Crown after 21 years should the second coming not occur. The executors of the Will have three volumes of files containing many claims to the bequest. One of the most memorable was an American door to door salesman who felt he had a claim to the money since every time he knocked on someone’s door he was met by the phrase ‘Jesus Christ, not you again’!