Charity' in its legal sense comprises four principal divisions: trusts for the relief of poverty; trusts for the advancement of education; trusts for the advancement of religion; and trusts for other purposes beneficial to the community, not falling under... Report of the Attorney General - Page 232by Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - 1915Full view - About this book
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 768 pages
...poverty. (2) Trusts for the advancement of education. (3) Trusts for the advancement of religion. (4) Trusts for other purposes beneficial to the community not falling under any of the preceding heads and not being for the purpose merely of sport or hospitality. It is quite apparent that this bequest... | |
| Law - 1919 - 740 pages
...Incorri'1 Tax v. Pemsel, [1891] AC 583, where he stated that ' ' charity in its legal sense comprised four principal divisions: Trusts for the relief of...community, not falling under any of the preceding heads." The law on this point was also stated in Tudor on Charities and Mortmain, p. 55, that gifts for public... | |
| Law - 1892 - 582 pages
...it may be asked, does the popular meaning of the word 'charity' correspond with its legal meaning? ' Charity ' in its legal sense comprises four principal...advancement of religion ; and trusts for other purposes benef,cial to the community, not falling under any of the preceding heads. The trusts last referred... | |
| John Mews - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 988 pages
...district will suffice. In Income Tax Commissioners v. Pemsel (3), Lord MACNAGHTEN (p. 542) said that charity, in its legal sense, comprises four principal...community, not falling under any of the preceding heads. In examining the purposes of any particular trust the Court has taken a liberal rather than a narrow... | |
| Henry Budd, Ardemus Stewart - Equity - 1896 - 828 pages
...Commissioners for Special Purposes of Income Tax v. Pemsel, [1891] AC 531, 583, Lord MACXAGHTEX says that charity, in its legal sense, comprises four principal...beneficial to the community, not falling under any of these preceding heads. In examining the purposes of any particular trust the court has taken a liberal... | |
| Louis Arthur Goodeve - Real property - 1897 - 632 pages
...well-ascertained signification in English law." And in the same case («) Lord Macnaghten observed that " ' charity ' in its legal sense comprises four principal...community, not falling under any of the preceding heads. The trusts last referred to are not the less charitable in the eye of the law because incidentally... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 830 pages
...Eomilly in Aforice v. The Btihop of Durham. The passage in Lord Macughten's judgment runs thus : " Charity in its legal sense comprises four principal...education ; trusts for the advancement of religion ; tod trusts for other purposes beneficial to the community, not falling under any of the preceding... | |
| Taxation - 1899 - 674 pages
...may be asked, noes the popular meaning of the word " charity " correspond 'with its legal meaning? "Charity" in its legal sense comprises four principal...community not falling under any of the preceding heads. The trusts last referred to are not the less charitable in the eye, of the law because incidentally... | |
| Sir William Searle Holdsworth, Charles William Vickers - Forms (Law) - 1899 - 336 pages
...Theobald, WiUs, pp. 295, 296, for instances of charitable gifts. four principal divisions—trusts for the relief of poverty; trusts for the advancement...community not falling under any of the preceding heads.' ' And,' says Lord Herschell', ' I think that the popular conception of a charitable purpose covers... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 846 pages
...legal sense was spoken of as comprising four principal divisions - trusts for the relief of property, trusts for the advancement of education, trusts for the advancement of religion, and truste for other purposes beneficial to the community not faffing under the preceding heads. Lord Macnaghten... | |
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