Legal oddities of the day

Will

An unusual way to make a will was chosen by the Portuguese Luis Carlos de Noronha Cabral da Camara, who, 13 years before his death, with two witnesses, chose 70 random people from the phone book of Lisbon and identified them as heirs, though considering the number of people written to the document, hardly anyone of them got something significant from the faddish aristocrat after his death.