Severus and Gong Saiyi arrived together at the "Deep Blue" Hall of the Richelieu Library.
Since humanity invented tools to save itself labor, could artificial intelligence, like a chess player, replace human judges in delivering verdicts?
Take a good look at that black-robed "cashier." Didn't he look like a robot?
Although modern trusts were established in Britain and later spread to America, their earliest origins were not in Britain, but in Rome more than two thousand years ago, during the era of Augustus.
Moreover, the system originally existed because emperors feared that women would be lured by priests into becoming deaconesses and donating their property to the Church. So they enacted laws allowing only women over sixty to become deaconesses, while strictly restricting the transfer of property, in order to ensure that family interests would not be neglected.
However, that law was short-lived and was abolished in the very year it was issued. Priests harshly criticized the emperors' various restrictions on the Church's acceptance of inherited donations. Explicit prohibitions often invited protest and contempt, and thus the system of secret trusts came into being.
This kind of secret trust differed greatly from classical trusts. Or rather, trusts after Augustus became middle-class in nature. They no longer served their original purpose, but existed to protect those without capacity.
All trusts required probate, which was torture for everyone. Secret trusts skipped that step. For matters involving lovers, illegitimate children, or other hidden circumstances, the testator left the estate to a trustworthy trustee, a reliable friend, who would carry out the undisclosed trust for the benefit of its beneficiaries.
For example, an old rich man might have an extraordinarily fierce wife and five or six wolfish children, while also having a frail lover more than twenty years his junior and an illegitimate child