A Succinct View of the History of Mortmain and the Statutes Relative to Charitable Uses: With a Full Exposition of the Last Statute of Mortmain, 9 Geo. II. C. 36 and Its Subsequent Alterations, Comprising the Law as it Now Stands Relative to Devises, Bequests, Visitation, Leases, Taxes, and Other Incidents to the Establishment of Public CharitiesJ. Butterworth, 1809 - 592 páginas |
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43 Eliz act of parliament advowsons afterwards alienation alms-houses annuities applied appointed Attorney Attorney-general Atty Atty.-gen benefit bequeathed bequest bill Bishop building chancellor chapel charged charitable purposes charity charter Christ's hospital church clause clergy codicil corporation court court of Chancery court of equity crown Cy Pres death debts declared decree devise directed dispose disposition effect equity erect established execution executors favour founder fund gift give given governors granted ground Hardwicke heir-at-law heirs held Henry VIII hospital incorporated intention interest king laid lands lease legacy license Lord Hardwicke Lord Thurlow Lord-chancellor master mortgage object paid parish parliament personal estate poor principle purchase Queen Anne's bounty question real estate relief rents residuary residue revenues shew statute of frauds statute of mortmain superstitious surrender testator's testatrix thereof tion trust Vern vested visitor void whole words
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Página 57 - 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...
Página 89 - 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...
Página 88 - High Court of Chancery, within six calendar months next after the execution thereof; and unless such stocks be transferred in the public books usually kept for the transfer of...
Página 397 - A hospital is for those that are poor, and mean, and low, and sickly; a college is for another sort of indigent persons; but it hath another intent, to study in and breed up persons in the world that have no otherwise to live; but still it is as much within the reasons as hospitals.
Página 503 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants. It is always unknown. It is different in different men. It is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice; in the worst, it is every vice, folly, and passion to which human nature is liable" —is not the modern view, if applied to judicial discretion in supervising verdicts.
Página 55 - ... the privileges and immunities, the estates and possessions, of the corporation, when once vested in them, will be for ever vested, without any new conveyance to new successions ; for all the individual members that have existed from the foundation to the present time, or that shall ever hereafter exist, are but one person in law, a person that never dies : in like manner as the river Thames is still the same river, though the parts which compose it are changing every instant.
Página 272 - If there be a clear trust, but for uncertain objects, the property that is the subject of the trust is undisposed of, and the benefit of such trust must result to those to whom the law gives the ownership in default of disposition by the former owner.
Página 491 - ... thereof, or by any person paying rent for the same; and for the repairs of the public buildings and offices of such college or hall...
Página 396 - ... where the persons to whom the charity is given are not incorporated, there is no such visitatorial power, because the interest of the revenue is not invested in them; but where they are, the right of visitation ariseth from the foundation, and the founder...
Página 273 - By what rule of construction could it be said, all objects of liberality and benevolence are excluded, which do not fall within the statute of Eliz. ? The question is not, whether he may not apply it upon purposes strictly charitable, but whether he is bound so to apply it...