ABSTRACT
Post-millennial readers know that Bellamy was wrong, but from the writer’s perspective, it seems that the prospect of even another hundred years would be inadequate to dislodge property from its place as the key-note of social organization and personal ambition. Indeed, his wry note that “in the meantime” the act of acquiring property should almost immediately prompt thoughts of its disposal suggests that will-writing is something of a compulsion and that the history of troublesome wills will continue to pose thorny legal questions for the foreseeable future. For with the acquisition of property comes a sense of individual rights and duties pertaining to it.1
