The Law society, in other words, has given «guidance» to its members as to how to draft wills in a way which circumvents English legal
principles as they have always been accepted: and it envisages that this might even mean taking on the English law in court to see if their wily little legal tricks have been successful: a
perfect example of an attempt to make the letter
of the law prevail over its spirit: Christians will remember that, according to St Paul (2 Corinthians 3:6), «the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life».