Not so very long ago, there used to be great trouble sometimes, as a result of marriage agreements. Now when a man bestows his farm on his son, a deed of possession is made out in the son's name. This is usually done when he is getting married. It sometimes happened that this young man got into bad health and died at an early age. His own family often prevailed on him to will the farm to one of themselves - thus depriving his wife and sometimes his family of any means of subsistence. Such a case always ended in the