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TURNPIKE - TRUSTEES.
Ovservations continued

may be said of them; and doubt against doubt, that expression is the least exceptionable which is the shortest
and most familiar.
The original deems to have been framed upon these considerations: 1. that There are two ways in which
a man makes an advantage of his estate; by taking either the specific profits of it himself, or 2.a
price in lien of them:the word was therefore inserted to express the 1st these cases. The words "Receipt
of the rents and profits" to express the 2- rather indeed for the sake of explanation than the word "" was insufficient in a legal sense to include them both.2 that this however, to understand it literally would com might in-
-prize-clude the condition of a bare Steward or Trustees; and therefore the restriction "in his right" was added. Lastly that these words being frequently put in contradistinction to "his wife's" might of themselves be understood to
be so here; & therefore the last mentioned words were coupled with them.

Now I can see no reason why the word " enjoyment" should not be understood to express all this. A man may
be said to enjoy an estate indifferently' where nothing more that a present enjoyment is required, whether it be
in his own right that he has come to it, or his wife's; whether it be by taking the specific profits himself or
a rent instead of them: and he can not be said to enjoy it, by taking the profits or the rent of it as a
Trustee or Steward for anther.

I have said, a present enjoyment; for it is remarkable that nothing more is here required: if it is from
this circumstance that it seems as if the design were rather to secure a certain rank in the persons invested with these truth, than a certain fortune' under the notion that a real estate to the amount specified is not
likely to have been though for over so short a time in the hands of persons of that mean condition which it is endeavoured to exclude. In the other view the provision is manifestly imperfect. In any view in
Will;

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Folio number	065	Info in main headings field	sect. ii turnpike-trustees
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