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Wrongful non-investment [interception, divestment
usurpation and investment] of property; [and condition
wrongful withholding of services in life, and trust]
Procrastination
Innumerable are the cases in which a man
who lies under an obligation to another is sufferd
Whenever a man is suffer'd to be a gainer
upon whom in reparation of an injury are the of injury or on any other
score the account the law a burthen ought to be
imposed for the benefit anothers of another is suffer'd
to make a profit by delay to better himself by procrastination ; the law [may be
consider'd as being] which establishes or connives
at so preposterous an arrangement may be consider'd
as an accomplice in the wrong. Innumber
The cases in which the law of England is chargeable
with this negligence or this inequity are
innumerable. In many cases by fighting off till
the hand of death comes to his relief, he may
get rid of the principal of what he owes: in many
more he may get rid of the interest: in
all cases he may as it were borrow the money at the common
interest of a man who perhaps is starving for the
want of it. To remedy dry up this most fertile source
of iniquity and chicane three simple but wide-
-extending
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jeremy bentham |
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