In " Blackwell ", Viscount Sumner said that : " [ a ] testator cannot reserve to himself a power of making future unwitnessed dispositions by merely naming a trustee and leaving the purposes of the trust to be supplied afterwards ", a passage given its traditional interpretation in cases such as " Re Keen ", becoming a " cornerstone " of the what has become known as the'prior acceptance rule '.
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In it, the viewpoint is always that of the small man who acts as the writer's alter ego, with his " obtuse, fanatic, delirious obsessions "-the small man of the 1950s Rio de Janeiro lower middle-class, who, as Rodrigues himself, had " a single suit, a single pair of shoes ", and was torn between the longing for a lost moral order-specially, when a male, to the threat posed to his authority by the incipient female emancipation fostered by the development of an urban milieu and its possibilities of unwitnessed encounters and his ( or hers ) sexual drives . In short, his work displays a " violent prejudiced patriarchal society " confronted to " all manner of sexual repression, perversions and taboos ".
