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We, as lawyers, as men of business, as men of experience, know perfectly well what evils necessarily result from handing over a great family estate to a mortgagee in possession, whose only chance of getting his money is to sacrifice the interests of everybody to money-getting.

— Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley In re Marquis of Ailesbury's Settled Estates (1891)

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