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Appropriation I

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Instances where
it does so without
complaint — establishment
of life
estates
or less estate
in land

This facility of making new dispositions of property
without thwarting expectation we see it exercised by
legislative authority in a thousand instances and
that without any inconvenience. To put the strongest
instance; viz: that of a life annuity required by the
father of a family who has children. Were he to
take it in the way of ordinary succession his children
would expect to enjoy it after his death as he
enjoy'd it after the death of his predecessors. But
the by the very contract in virtue of which he enjoys it (which
contract by being adopted by the legislature or judicial
authority has become a kind of particular law of the
state) the formation of all such expectations has been
prevented stopped in their very source. The father knows
his children are not to have it after him: the children
know they are not to have it: he and they, if they
have common prudence make provision and
regulate their plan of life accordingly; and when
the father drops, no pain of disappointment flows
to the children from this source.

Would it be consistent with ability then to
turn all estates into life-estates, for the benefit
of the public, leaving nothing to descend to the children?
Evidently not and doing by all men without distinction
what is done with regard to the chief servants

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The rule of succession
proposed
ought not to be
further extended
in prejudice of
children why

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	12-14
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	041	Info in main headings field	appropriation supply
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 680, vol. 4	ID Number	3342
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