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C 5 Refusal of Trusts Diss
be expedient to trust commit to the care and management
of another.
Trusts concerning person whence they arise
First then with regard to the persons.
In general no no one so fit to take care
of a man's person as himself; because no one,
(as hath often before been intimated) is so well
informed what is for a man's advantage, or so
willing to promote it, as he is himself. To this
rule however there are however certain obvious exceptions
founded, all on them, on a defect to which persons
of certain descriptions are liable in point of understanding.
Such are those to wit whose understanding in whom that
faculty is not yet arrived at maturity; it's full growth: and those
whose understanding in whom it is unsound. Hence the necessity
for of creating the different sorts of trusts which
belong to the different sorts of Guardians and their
substitutes.
Trusts concerning property
The same reasons give birth to the necessity
of refering similar confidences with respect
to property. But besides these reasons there are
others respecting property which have nothing
to do with person. Various causes concur in
disposing a persons of the maturest and soundest
intellects to entrust others with the management of
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jeremy bentham |
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