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 CONWAY — COOK absolutely ; and (2) of the wife’s property for such persons as she shall when discovert by deed, or whether covert or discovert by will, appoint, and in default of appointment, for her absolutely if she survive the husband, but if not, then for her next of kin under the Statute of Distributions, excluding the husband. For all ordinary purposes the trustees have now under various statutes sufficient powers and indemnities. They may, however, in some cases need special protection against liability. A power of appointing new trustees is supplied by the Trustee Act, 1893. It is usually made exercisable by the husband and wife during their joint lives, and by the survivor during his or her life. The form and contents of wills are extremely diverse. A will of, perhaps, the commonest type (a) appoints executors and trustees; (6) makes a specific disWllIs position of a freehold or leasehold residence; (c) gives a few legacies or annuities; and (d) devises and bequeaths to the executors and trustees the residue of the real and personal estate upon trust to sell and convert, to invest the proceeds (after payment of debts and funeral and testamentary expenses) in a specified manner, to pay the income of the investments to the testator’s widow for life or until another marriage, and subject to her interest, to hold the capital and income in trust for his children who attain twenty-one, or being daughters marry, in equal shares, with a power of advancement. Daughters’ shares are frequently settled by testators upon them and their issue on the same lines and with the same statutory incidents as above mentioned in the observations upon settlements; and sometimes a will contains in like manner a strict settlement of real estate. It is a point often overlooked by testators desirous of benefiting remote descendants that future interests in property must, under what is known as the rule against perpetuities, be restricted within a life or lives in being and twenty-one years afterwards. In disposing of real estate “ devise ” is the appropriate word of conveyance, and of personal estate “ bequeath.” But neither word is at all necessary. “ I leave all I have to A. B. and appoint him my executor ” would make an effectual will for a testator who wished to give all his property, whether real or personal, after payment of his debts, to a .single person. By virtue of the Land Transfer Act, 1897, Part I., real estate of an owner dying after 1897 now vests for administrative purposes in his executors or administrators, notwithstanding any testamentary disposition. It remains to mention that by the Land Transfer Act, 1897, a system of compulsory registration of title, limited for the present to the county of London, has been established. (See Land Kegisteation.) United States.—Conveyances of real estate in the United States are simple in form, and are often prepared by those who have had no professional training for the purpose. Printed blanks, sold at the law-stationers, are commonly employed. The lawyers in each state have devised forms for such blanks, sometimes peculiar in some points to the particular state, and sometimes copied verbatim from those in ise elsewhere. Deeds intended to convey an absolute estate are generally either of the form known as warranty deed or of that known as release deed. The release deed is often used as a primary conveyance without warranty to one who had no prior interest in the land. Uniformity in deeds is rendered particularly desirable from the general prevalence of the system of recording all conveyances at length in a public office. Record books are printed for this purpose, containing printed pages corresponding to the printed blanks in use in the particular state, and the recording officer simply has to fill up each page as the deed of similar form was filled up. One set of books may thus be kept for recording warranty deeds, another for recording release deeds, another for recording mortgage deeds, another for leases, &c. Authorities.—Davidson. Precedents and Forms in Conveyancing. London, 1877 and 1885.—Key and Elphinstone. Compendium of Precedents in Conveyancing. London, 1899.— Elphinstone. Introduction to Conveyancing. London, 1900. — Pollock. The Land Laws. London, 1896. (s. Wa. ; S. E. B.) Conway (or Abeeconway), a summer resort, municipal town, and parish in the county of Carnarvon, Wales,

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14 miles by rail north-east from Bangor and 225 northwest from London. It is built on the side and at the foot of a hill (800 ft.) at the mouth of the river Conway, with Great Orme’s Head and Llandudno 4 miles to the north. The river is crossed by two bridges—a tubular railway bridge, similar to that at Menai and only 40 feet shorter, built by Stephenson in 1846-48, and a handsome suspension bridge, designed by Telford and built of white stone, in keeping with the castle, in 1822-26. One of the old houses of the town, the Elizabethan Bias Mawr, is the headquarters of the Boyal Cambrian Academy of Art. There are still a few fragments of the Cistercian abbey founded in 1185. The principal public buildings are the guildhall and the market hall; and there are a new bronze fountain, a convalescent home for children, and golf links. Area of the parish, 2437 acres; of the municipal borough, 3312 acres. Population of borough (1891), 3442; (1901), 4660. The river Conway, about 30 miles long, drains the beautiful Yale of Conway, in which stand Bettws-y-Coed, Llanrwst, and Trefriw, the last-named a favourite artists’ haunt. Gooch (or Kuch) Be heir, a native state of India, in Bengal, a submontane tract, not far from Darjiling, entirely surrounded by British territory. Area, 1307 sq. m. Population (1881), 602,624 ; (1901), 567,037. The gross revenue in 1897-98 was Rs.22,39,668. The present Maharaja, Hripendra Narayan, G.C.I.E., was born in 1862 and educated under British guardianship at Patna and Calcutta. He is Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel of the 6th Bengal Cavalry. In 1897-98 he served in the Tirah campaign on the staff of General Yeatman-Biggs, and received the distinction of aC.B. In 1878 he married a daughter of Keshub Chundra Sen, the Brahmo leader. His eldest son has been educated in England. Among other improvements, a railway has been constructed, with the assistance of a loan from the British Government, for a length of 22 miles, which is now being extended for a farther 12 miles. The earthquake of 12th June 1897 caused damage to public buildings, roads, Ac., in the state to the estimated amount of Bs. 15,00,000. The town of Cooch Behae is situated on the river Torsha, and has a railway station; population, 9535. Cook, Eliza (1818-1889), English author, was born in 1818, in Southwark, being the daughter of a local tradesman. She was self-taught, and began when a girl to write poetry for such periodicals as the Weekly Dispatch and New Monthly. In 1840 she published Melaia and other Poems, and from 1849 to 1854 conducted a paper for the family called Eliza Cook's Journal. She also published Jottings for my Journal (1860), and New Echoes (1864) ; and in 1864 she was given a Civil List pension of JjlOO a year. As the author of a single poem, “The Old Armchair,” Eliza Cook’s name was for a generation after 1838 a household word both in England and in America, her kindly domestic sentiment making her a great favourite with the working-class and middle-class public. She died at Wimbledon, 25th September 1889. Cook, Thomas (1808-1892), travelling agent, was born at Melbourne in Derbyshire on 22nd November 1808. Beginning work at the age of ten, he was successively a gardener’s help and a wood - turner at Melbourne, and a printer at Loughborough. At the age of twenty he became a Bible-reader and village missionary for the county of Rutland; but in 1832, on his marriage, combined his wood-turning business with that occupation. In 1840 he became actively associated with the temperance movement, and printed at his own expense various publications in its interest, notably the Children's Temperance Magazine, the first of its kind to appear in England.