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... opinion . p . 167 . SECT . 3. - Analogous operation of the cy pres doctrine . p . 169 . 1. - Where the charitable objects are attended with un- certainty . p . 170 . 2. - Where the donor has left the enumeration of objects incomplete ...
... opinion . p . 167 . SECT . 3. - Analogous operation of the cy pres doctrine . p . 169 . 1. - Where the charitable objects are attended with un- certainty . p . 170 . 2. - Where the donor has left the enumeration of objects incomplete ...
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... opinion seems at one time to have been entertained , that there could be no charity but what was within the express terms of the act ; Att . Gen. v . Hewer , 2 Vern . 387. This notion , however , was incorrect ; for not only are those ...
... opinion seems at one time to have been entertained , that there could be no charity but what was within the express terms of the act ; Att . Gen. v . Hewer , 2 Vern . 387. This notion , however , was incorrect ; for not only are those ...
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... opinion , Lord C. J. Camden , ( though not with a view of confining the gift ) , arguing most strongly , that let the bounty be ever so small , it must necessarily operate pro tanto in reducing the rates and easing the parishioners ...
... opinion , Lord C. J. Camden , ( though not with a view of confining the gift ) , arguing most strongly , that let the bounty be ever so small , it must necessarily operate pro tanto in reducing the rates and easing the parishioners ...
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... opinion seems to be rather in favor of the latter construction . See a statement of the several cases , Sugd . Pow . 536,7 ; 1 Rop . Leg . by White , 94 et seq . & 1 Pow . Dev . by Jarm . 292 , 3 n . 3. The student however should be ...
... opinion seems to be rather in favor of the latter construction . See a statement of the several cases , Sugd . Pow . 536,7 ; 1 Rop . Leg . by White , 94 et seq . & 1 Pow . Dev . by Jarm . 292 , 3 n . 3. The student however should be ...
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... opinion that " this was meant as a charitable bequest , and that the objects of that charity should be the testator's own relations : that it was nothing more than ascertaining a number of objects of charity , who could not claim except ...
... opinion that " this was meant as a charitable bequest , and that the objects of that charity should be the testator's own relations : that it was nothing more than ascertaining a number of objects of charity , who could not claim except ...
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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.