Over the years eccentrics have written strange wills, bequeathing both their immovable and movable properties, in equally strange ways.

Leo Tolstoy the writer amazed his family and friends when he left all his worldly posessions to a tree stump....

Then there was the gentleman whos wife would not allow him to smoke, so on his death his Will left her a large sum of money on the proviso that she smoked five cigarettes a day....

The worlds smallest Will was written on the back of a postage stamp and needed a magnifying glass to be deciphered. The longest Will took over twenty years to write and consisted of over ninety five thousand words....

Who could forget the rich American socialite who in her Will left her fortune to her brother on the understanding that she would be buried in her Ferrari with the seat set at a comfortable angle so that she didnt get back ache. She also requested she was to be dressed in her favourite nightdress. Her brother duely comlied with her wishes and the Ferrari was set in concrete to prevent grave diggers from looting the tomb....

An old Finnish gent bequeathed all his possessions to the Devil. Ultimately, and some what ironically, the government took possession of his property when the devil could not be found....

And who could forget the gentleman who left his body to science on the understanding that two drums were to be made with his skin and once a year they were to be used to play Yankee Doodle Dandy....