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or ])e distorted or forgotten, and is in good 

 shape to submit, at the first opportunity, to 

 your lawyer, who, if an error has been made, 

 can, while the matter is fresh, more easily cor- 

 rect it. Remember that a contract is simply a 

 meeting of the minds of the contracting parties, 

 and the best drawn contract possible is one that 

 states, in language sirnple and concise, what 

 each means as expressed by word of mouth. 



Most of the litigation so much feared by the 

 farmer is due to the farmer himself and his 

 neglect to seek an ounce of preventive. It is 

 true that there are rascally lawyers ; so, too, 

 there are dishonest men in every trade, occupa- 

 tion or profession, but they are generally easily 

 located. 



If this chapter shall lead the farmer to feel 

 that his business is farming, that " a jack-at- 

 all- trades is master of none," and that the law, 

 justly interpreted and enforced by those who 

 know it thoroughly and well, is to be the 

 foundation of his success, the guarantee of 

 his home through life, and the channel of its 

 proper disposal after death, then it has not been 

 written in vain. Remember that the province of 

 the true lawyer is to keep his client out of 

 trouble, rather than to get him out of trouble. 

 An honest lawyer, of whom, thank Heaven, 

 there are very many, notwithstanding the popu- 



