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Diss. Refusal of Trusts
of desire competition, than of refusal; not indeed of themselves,
but what comes to the same thing in virtue of the
emoluments which come of course to be annexed
to them. Even those which have not necessarily
any thing to do with property, and which therefore
do not necessarily afford whereas that to yield
an emolument to the Trustee, such as those which
belong to the relations of Guardian, Executor, Administrator,
and in case of the poor, tCounsillor
Advocate and Attorney, are not constantly objects
of refusal. Sympathy, cemented fortified strengthened
by consanguinity, affinity or compassion, commonly
enough provides persons who are willing content, without
any pecuniary profit to take upon them
the exercise of those laborious trusts. But the
Law which whose office business it is to provide against
the worst contingencies, and combat the most
perverse dispositions, can not trust to the uncertain
operation of such variable causes. It
must provide by <some means or other in every case some person
or other who at all events shall be obliged to
take upon him these necessary occupations. This
it can only do by compulsion; thereby creating
so many sorts of offences as there may be are trusts of
which it can be found necessary to compel a man to
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jeremy bentham |
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