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Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey - Page 665
by New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1905
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A Treatise on Special Subjects of the Law of Real Property: Containing an ...

Alfred Gandy Reeves - 1904 - 998 pages
...for which such donations are made. He said : " A charity in a legal sense may be more fully denned as a gift to be applied, consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, — either by bringing their hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 97

Abraham Clark Freeman - 1904 - 1152 pages
...Mr. Justice Gray, when of the supreme court of Massachusetts, "in a legal sense, may be fully denned as a gift to be applied consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite numl>er of persons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion,...
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Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases, Volume 2

1904 - 1032 pages
...Phillips, 96 Mass. (14 Allen) 539, 556. Appeal of Strong, 37 Atl. 395, 396, 68 Conn. 527. A charity is "a gift to be applied, consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their hearts under the influence of education or religion,...
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Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 5

1905 - 1102 pages
...14 Allen, 556, a charity was defined by Justice Gray as follows : "A charity, in legal sense, may bo more fully defined as a gift to be applied consistently...existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, cither by bringing their minds or hearts under the inüuence of education or religion, by...
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The Ohio Nisi Prius Reports, Volume 2

Ohio. Courts - 1905 - 750 pages
...therefor." 12 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law (2d Ed.), 342. "A charity, in the legal sense of the term, may be 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, by...
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The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library ..., Volume 4

Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1905 - 1020 pages
...flourishing condition, and is non-sectarian and non-political. Charitable Trusts. A charitable trust is <(a gift, to be applied consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds or their hearts under the influence of education or religion,...
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The South Western Reporter, Volume 95

1906 - 1270 pages
...16 L. Ed. 701. And he then proceeds to formulate the following comprehensive rule: 'A charity in the legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift,...existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds and hearts under the influence of education or religion, by...
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Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 10

1907 - 1318 pages
...p. 894, 2d ed. ) and the Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure (see vol. 6, p. 900) define public charity 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, by...
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Equity jurisprudence. Trusts. Equity pleading

Albert Hutchinson Putney - 1908 - 366 pages
...court in the case of Crerar vs. Williams, 145 11l., 625; 34 NE, 467. It is as follows: 'A charity in a legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift,...existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General ..., Volume 122

Abraham Clark Freeman - 1908 - 1196 pages
...on page 556, denned a charity as follows : "A charity, in the legal sense, may be more fully denned as a gift, to be applied consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, 335 either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion,...
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