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... observed , as characteristic of the capricious temper of this monarch , that he himself in the last year of his reign founded one of these very hospitals , that of St. Bartholomew in Smithfield , which thus appeared to have been marked ...
... observed , as characteristic of the capricious temper of this monarch , that he himself in the last year of his reign founded one of these very hospitals , that of St. Bartholomew in Smithfield , which thus appeared to have been marked ...
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... observed , " I believe that it has been the practice from the beginning , and I hope that it still continues , and will long con- tinue , that in these schools great care is taken to educate youth in the doctrines of Christianity ; to ...
... observed , " I believe that it has been the practice from the beginning , and I hope that it still continues , and will long con- tinue , that in these schools great care is taken to educate youth in the doctrines of Christianity ; to ...
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William Robert Augustus Boyle. Observations upon the act . 31 Eliz . c . 6 . 35 Eliz . c . 7 . 39 Eliz . c . 5 . in esse ... observed , is in terms confined to hospitals existing at the time of its being passed , or as the statute has it ...
William Robert Augustus Boyle. Observations upon the act . 31 Eliz . c . 6 . 35 Eliz . c . 7 . 39 Eliz . c . 5 . in esse ... observed , is in terms confined to hospitals existing at the time of its being passed , or as the statute has it ...
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... observed , that there were old precedents , where by a perverse and mistaken construction of the statute of Elizabeth , the court enabled persons to give to charities , who had no power to do so by law . In Att . Gen. v . Bradley , 1 ...
... observed , that there were old precedents , where by a perverse and mistaken construction of the statute of Elizabeth , the court enabled persons to give to charities , who had no power to do so by law . In Att . Gen. v . Bradley , 1 ...
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... year , without fraud and collusion . " This , the Master of the Rolls observed , appeared to him to be in the nature of a charitable bequest , Price . Mahon v . Savage . particularly upon the case of D 2 Ch . 11. ] 35 of Charitable Uses .
... year , without fraud and collusion . " This , the Master of the Rolls observed , appeared to him to be in the nature of a charitable bequest , Price . Mahon v . Savage . particularly upon the case of D 2 Ch . 11. ] 35 of Charitable Uses .
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Page 277 - subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the penalties of
Page 506 - ... and unless the same be made to take effect in possession for the charitable use intended, immediately from the making thereof, and be without any power of revocation, reservation, trust, condition, limitation, clause or agreement whatsoever, for the benefit of the donor or grantor, or of any person or persons claiming under him.
Page 506 - That from and after the 24th day of June, 1736, no manors, lands, tenements, rents, advowsons, or other hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal whatsoever ; nor any sum or sums of money, goods, chattels, stocks in the public funds, securities for money, or any other personal estate whatsoever, to be laid out or disposed of in the purchase of any lands, tenements or hereditaments...
Page 507 - Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-six, no manors, lands, tenements, rents, advowsons, or other hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal whatsoever, nor any sum or sums of money goods, chattels, stocks in the public funds, securities for money, or any other personal estate whatsoever, to be laid out or disposed of in the purchase of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments...
Page 71 - Whereas gifts or alienations of lands, tenements, or hereditaments in mortmain are prohibited or restrained by Magna Charta, and divers other wholesome laws, as prejudicial to and against the common utility ; nevertheless, this public mischief has of late greatly increased by many large and improvident alienations or dispositions made by languishing or dying persons, or by other persons to uses called charitable uses, to take place after their deaths, to the disherison of their lawful heirs...
Page 296 - Wilmot had said) are never imperative; they leave the act to be done at the will of the party to whom they are given. Trusts are always imperative, and are obligatory upon the conscience of the party intrusted.
Page 461 - ... some for relief of aged, impotent and poor people, some for maintenance of sick and maimed soldiers and mariners, schools of learning, free schools, and scholars in universities, some for repair of bridges, ports, havens, causeways, churches, sea-banks and highways, some for education and preferment of orphans, some for or towards relief, stock or maintenance for houses of correction, some for marriages of poor maids, some for supportation, aid and help of young tradesmen, handicraftsmen and...
Page 14 - Queen's most excellent majesty, and her most noble progenitors, as by sundry other well-disposed persons ; some for relief of aged, impotent and poor people, some for maintenance of sick and maimed soldiers and mariners, schools of learning, free schools...
Page 284 - In the first case of this sort, a testator bequeathed a fund to be " from time to time for ever applied in the purchasing of such books, as, by a proper disposition of them under the following directions, mig/it have a tendency to promote the interests of virtue and religion and the happiness of mankind...
Page 125 - Provided nevertheless, that no effect shall be given hereby to any deed or other assurance heretofore made, so far as the same has been already avoided by any suit at law or in equity, or by any other legal or equitable means whatsoever, or to affect or prejudice any suit at law or in equity actually commenced for avoiding any such deed or other assurance, or for defeating the charitable uses in trust or for the benefit of which such deed or other assurance may have been made.