Excerpt from The Revised Reports, 1819-1820, Vol. 21: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, From the Year 1785, as Are Still of Practical Utility There are two or three cases in the volume on precatory trusts: a subject on which judicial construction is now coming round to letting words have their natural meaning and no more (be Hamilton, '95, 2 Ch. 370, 12 R. Aug. Many of the Older decisions would now be unsafe to rely on, but, as every case must depend on the precise terms of the disposition in question, no case of this class can on the other hand be safely treated as no longer law until it has been Oxpressly disapproved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.