JB/072/079/002

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2 C Breach of Trust. Of Prodigality in Trustees

Persons in want more exposed to temptation than others

Breach of Trust may be committed either
1 Either prejudice of parties beneficially interested or
2 To the prejudice of other persons at large (a)

It is That a man who from a state of
affluence is finds himself on a sudden reduced to indigence
is more exposed to temptation than a person whose
fortunes circumstances have never sustained any such shock, is
obvious to the most ordinary understanding. It is
also manifest that he is much more exposed than a
person whose circumstances should have been all
along on the same level with that to which those of the former
are now reduced. For a man's wants are always
proportioned to his habits. Every object therefore
which before his fall while possessed was a source of pleasure,
being lost becomes a source of pain (a). Above
all that portion of wealth respect which by
a natural and indissoluble association was attached
to the possession of the wealth quantity of wealth
in question, and which when possessed was a source
of pleas a of pleasures more valuable than all the

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NOTE

(a) To by income of the powers belonging to the .
[(a). Pain] viz. a pain of regret. See Introd. Ch [Pleasures
and Pains - their kinds].

Identifier: | JB/072/079/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	079	Info in main headings field	of prodigality in trustees
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	[[page_numbering::f1 / f2 / f1[sic] / f4]]
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23696
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