Note 6 — REMARKS ON ROADS.
Reading edition
It is impossible not to see that statute labour is a remnant of personal service; a gentleman might as well argue at the present day, that rents paid in kind, are more easy and equitable than monied rents, as to defend the custom of mending highways by compulsory labour.
Edgeworth’s Essay on the Construction of
Roads and Carriages, p. 46.