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Precarious circumstauces

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The circumstances of an executor are precarious, within the meaning and intent of a statute, only when his character and conduct present such evidence of improvidence or recklessnss in the management of the trust-estate, or of his own. as in the opinion of prudent and discreet men endangers its security.

Shields v. Shields, 60 Barb. (N. Y.) 56.