It is that, so far as I see, Mr. Saffron is of perfectly sound understanding, and capable of making a valid will.

Nor would it suffice even to have the faculty of reoccupation, because "this faculty" could never be a valid substitute for occupation.

On the next day Cæsar's acts were formally confirmed, and among them his will was declared valid, though its provisions were yet unknown.

Undoubtedly then the advantages resulting from a belief in religion, whether valid or illusory, are such as to incline not only the higher and more unselfish minds, but even those which are more prudential and self-regarding, to wish to hold that beliefto be unwilling to hear arguments against it.

We must of course assume that our distinction of higher from lower states of rational development is valid; that we can really attach some absolute meaning to the terms "progress" and "decline;" that there is some vaguely conceived standard of human excellence which such terms refer to.

It may farther be urged that if this reasoning be valid,and if, for the present, one text must be retained uniformly throughout,the natural plan is to take the earliest, and not the latest; and this has some recommendations.

He had signed a Bull to suppress the order, which Bull was to "be forever and to all eternity valid."

Whether this rule could be considered as valid in the controversy between these sovereigns, may, however, be doubted, for the bishop's answer seems to imply, that the title of the house of Brandenburg had been kept alive by repeated claims, though the seizure of the territory had been hitherto forborne.

I am so far, sir, from being of opinion, that, to make the execution of this order valid, the house must sit, without interruption, from the time of the offence to that of the punishment, that if the gentlemen in the gallery were to be taken into custody, I should advise the serjeant to wait till the house should break up, and seize them as they should come out.

Already they had partners in London, and hardly was the grant of Carolinia made known before their agents pleaded their discovery, occupancy and purchase, as affording a valid title to the soil, while they claimed the privilege of self-government as a natural right.

There is no valid reason why Mr. Chambers should not ultimately be remembered as the novelist who left behind him a comprehensive human comedy of New York.

I think this latter reason was a very valid one, but that the first one, which seemed to appeal especially to the President, had little real merit.

I later came to look upon it more seriously and to recognize the fact that there were some valid reasons in favor of the proposal.

However valid this argument in favor of the two treaties of assistance, and though my personal sympathy for France inclined me to satisfy her wishes, my judgment, as an American Commissioner, was that American interests and the traditional policies of the United States were against this alliance.

It would seem as if no valid argument could be made in favor of suspension because the effect of the rule would be to revive and perpetuate an inequitable and unjustifiable act.

As for those characters and marks of distinction which religion, law, and morality fix upon both, they are only significant and valid when their authority is able to command obedience and submission; but when the greatness, numbers, or interest of those who are concerned outgrows that, they change their natures, and that which was injury before becomes justice, and justice injury.

Vital facts about wills and how to make a valid will.

Our Vienna Correspondent truly says that "there is no valid reason to believe war between Austria-Hungary and Russia to be inevitable, or even immediately probable."

We entirely agree, but wish we could add that the absence of any valid reason was placing strict limitations upon the scope of "precautions."

Those who recognize in the intuition a valid organ of knowledge, are disposed to exalt it above the reason, but at our present state of evolution, and given our environment, it would seem that the reason is the more generally useful faculty of the two.

A VALID EXCUSE.

The LORD MAYOR declared this was a perfectly valid excuse.

In a Honeymoon now he has got an excuse, And the LORD MAYOR pronounces it "perfectly valid"!

Was the claim a valid claim, and must it prevail?

I promised however, to speak to him in an hour's time; I consulted my friend Truman Harford in the interim; and the result was, that he and I should proceed to Kingroad in a boat, go on board the Africa, and charge the captain in person with what he had done, and desire him to discharge Sheriff, as no agreement, where fraud or force was used in the signatures, could be deemed valid.