LAWYER'S DOUBTFUL WILL.

AUTHOR OP WELL-KNOWN LAW BOOK ON " NEGLIGENCE." The old axiom that the man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client received some testimony in the hearing yesterday of a motion in the Chancery Division by Mr. Justice Eve, regarding the trusts of the will of the late Mr. Thomas Beven, an eminent barrister, who wrote a well-known law book " Beven on Negligence." Counsel for the plaintiff, Mr. Septimus Beven, a brother and executor of the late Mr. Beven, said that this was a motion to solve certain conundrums in the will of the deceased. Mr. Justice Eve: This is "Beven on Negligence," isn't it? I hope he was not 'negligent in-making his own will? (Laughter.) Counsel: I am afraid he was as a matter of fact. (Laughter.) The Court then proceeded to construe the meaning of ten different passages in the testator's will. His Lordship remarked at the conclusion of the case that he thought it was unfortunate that so eminent a lawyer as Mr. Beven should not have asked someone to settle hie will for him, a* it would have saved his beneficiaries considerable expense.