 Courts look with favor upon all attempted charitable donations, and will endeavor to carry them into effect if it can be done consistently with the rules of law. A bequest intended as a charity is not void, and there is no authority to construe it to...  A Treatise on the Law of Trusts and Trustees - Page 313by Jairus Ware Perry - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Peter Lovelass - 1823 - 470 pages
...of mortmain ? I am of opinion, upon this act of parliament, that this bequest was not void, and that there is no authority to construe it to be void, if by law it can possibly be made good. The act of parliament is not at all aimed against perpetual charities merely as such, or to prevent... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1842 - 812 pages
...inheritance. But I am of opinion upon this act of parliament, that this bequest was not void, and that there is no authority to construe it to be void, if by law it can possibly be made good. The act of parliament is not at all aimed against perpetual charities merely as such, or to prevent... | |
 | 1852 - 1094 pages
...otherwise" ; and he stated, that " upon this act of parliament there is no authority to construe a bequest to be void if by law it can possibly be made good" ; and 1 cite this case rather for this observation as to the construction of the bequest with reference... | |
 | 1921 - 994 pages
...portions ns he may determine, including or not, as he deems meet, those named in item third of this will.' is not void, and there is no authority to construe...be void, if by law it can possibly be made good." The intention of John Herrón as expressed in his will Is not In doubt. ! It is clear that he intended... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - 1897 - 718 pages
...rules of law, even if the particular manner indicated by the donor is illegal or impracticable." " The bequest is not void and there is no authority...be void, if by law it can possibly be made good." Perry on Trusts, 709. In considering a question very similar to those raised in the bill as to the... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1900 - 1050 pages
...make the investment in personal property, which was not prohibited by the statute; and said, 'This bequest is not void, and there is no authority to...void, if by law it can possibly be made good,' or (according to another, and perhaps more accurate, report) 'no authority to construe it to be void by... | |
 | 1909 - 1274 pages
...order to give them effect. Nevertheless, as said by Lord Ilarwicke, in speaking of such a bequest, "there is no authority to construe it to be void, if by law it can possibly be made good." At the civil law legacies for charity were not allowed to fail because of the uncertainty or failure... | |
 | William Smithers Church - 1909 - 1104 pages
...into effect, if it can be done consistently with the rules of law. A bequest intended as a charity is not void, and there is no authority to construe it to be legally void if by any possibility it can be made good: Estate of Willey, 128 Cal. 1; 60 Pac. Rep.... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - 1912 - 918 pages
...good charity by Lord HARDWICKK, by reason of the words " or otherwise," he holding that " there was no authority to construe it to be void, if by law it could possibly be made good," that is, if the bequest could be effected without violating the statute,... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1914 - 814 pages
...as to uphold and enforce them if it can be done consistently with the rules of law. As Lord Hardwick said: "The bequest is not void and there is no authority...be void, if by law it can possibly be made good." Perry on Trusts, sec. 709. It is plain that the manifest purpose of this testator, in the case at bar,... | |
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