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Definition :

Think fit, is a simple word of relation and its ordinary grammatical meaning will not be extended so as to include something else other than that to which it relates, Bryson v. Russell, 14 QB 720.

Means sometimes a testator empowers the trustees to invest the proceeds of the sale of certain properties as they should think fit. This means as the trustee shall honestly 'think fit'. It would be futile for a trustee to say that he thought fit to make an investment which he knew to be wrong. The court would say that he ought to 'think fit' so to do and would came to the conclusion that he did not in fact 'think fit', Smith v. Thompson, (1896) 1 Ch 71.