A charity, in the 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, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion,... Lawyers' Reports Annotated - Page 1061905Full view - About this book
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1905 - 808 pages
...benefit of an indefinite number of parsons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies...or otherwise lessening the burdens of government. It is immaterial whether the purpose is called charitable in the gift itself, if it be so described... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1914 - 768 pages
...bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies of disease, suffering or constraint, by assisting them...or otherwise lessening the burdens of government. It is immaterial whether the purpose is called charitable in the gift itself, if it be so described... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1878 - 738 pages
...Dickinson, 7 Mass. 153. De Camp v. Dobbins. bringing their hearts under the influence of education and religion, by relieving their bodies from disease,...constraint, by assisting them to establish themselves for life, or by erecting and maintaining public buildings or works, or otherwise lessening the burdens... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1898 - 924 pages
...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." In the Livesey c. Jones. case in hand, however, there is no intention to confine the gift to the people... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1908 - 726 pages
...benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies...or otherwise lessening the burdens of government. It is immaterial whether the purpose is called charitable in the gift itself, if it is so described... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1920 - 684 pages
...the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies...constraint, by assisting them to establish themselves for life, or by erecting or maintaining public buildings or works or otherwise lessening the burthens... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1910 - 726 pages
...relieving their bodies from disease, suffering or constraint, by assisting them to establish themselves for life, or by erecting or maintaining public buildings or works or otherwise lessening the burthens of government. It is immaterial whether the purpose is called charitable in the gift itself,... | |
| 1899 - 1354 pages
...benefit of an indefinite number of persons either by bringing their minds and hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies...by assisting them to establish themselves in life, by erecting or maintaining public buildings or work, or otherwise lessening the burdens of government."... | |
| Joseph Story - 1870 - 914 pages
...benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds and hearts under the influence of education or religion ; by relieving their bodies...by assisting them to establish themselves in life ; by erecting or maintaining public buildings or works, or otherwise lessening the burdens of government.... | |
| John Adams - 1873 - 930 pages
...benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies...themselves in life, or by erecting or maintaining public works, or otherwise lessening the burdens of government : [Per Gray, J.,] Jackson v. Phillips, 14 Allen... | |
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