| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1878 - 738 pages
...Sailors' Snug Harbor, 3 Pet. 115. The object is clear, and it is a charitable one in the legal sense. It is a gift " to be applied consistently with existing...for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons by bringing their hearts under the influence of education and religion." The institution known as the... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1898 - 924 pages
...contained in the statute of JfS Eliz. — in which he says: "A charity, in a legal sense, may be defined as a gift to be applied consistently with existing laws...for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons * * * by erecting or maintaining public buildings or works or otherwise lessening the burdens of government."... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1905 - 808 pages
...Mass. 539, 566 (1867), Justice Gray says : "A charity, in its legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift, to be applied, consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of parsons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1910 - 726 pages
...Phillips, 14 Allen, 556, which is as follows : "A charity, in a legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift, to be applied consistently with existing laws,...indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering... | |
| 1899 - 1354 pages
...and statutes of the State. A very fair definition is found in Jackson v. Phillips, 14 Allen, 539: " A charity is a gift, to be applied, consistently with...indefinite number of persons either by bringing their minds and hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering... | |
| Joseph Story - 1870 - 914 pages
...thoroughly discussed in a recent case.1 The court here, in denning charitable trusts in the abstract, say it is a gift to be applied, consistently with existing...number of persons, either by bringing their minds and hearts under the influence of education or religion ; by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering,... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1873 - 764 pages
...so far as the objects of it are coucerned : "A charity in a legal sense may be more fully defined as a gift to be applied (consistently with existing laws)...for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons." And in Fontaine vs. Ravenel, 17th Howard, 384, Judge McLean, in delivering the opinion of the Court,... | |
| 1920 - 496 pages
...— St Louis, IM & S. Ry. Co. v. Williams, USS C 40 Sup. Ct. 71. 15. CharltleH — Gift Defined. — A "charity" is a gift to be applied consistently with...number of persons, either by bringing their minds and hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering... | |
| GEO. TUCKER BISPHAM - 1874 - 610 pages
...Court of Massachusetts, in the case of Jackson v. Phillips, has defined a charity in its legal sense as a gift, to be applied consistently with existing laws,...number of persons, either by bringing their minds or their hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease,... | |
| Joseph Story - 1877 - 908 pages
...discussed in a recent case.6 The court here, in defining charitable trusts in the abstract, say it is a gift to be applied, consistently with existing...number of persons, either by bringing their minds and hearts Under the influence of education or religion ; by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering,... | |
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