| Thomas Carl Spelling - 1892 - 736 páginas
...term " charity." In its restricted sense, it means relief or alms to the poor ; but a charity in a legal sense may be more fully defined as a gift to...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... | |
| William John Tossell - 1909 - 958 páginas
...Phillips, 96 Mass. (14 Allen) 539, 556, the court defines a charity as follows : "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 or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by... | |
| Norman Fetter - 1895 - 490 páginas
...treated as mortgages.8' PUBLIC OR CHARITABLE TRUSTS. 123. A charitable trust has been denned to be a "gift, to be applied, consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, — either by bring•s Lewin, {Trusts, p. 689. 64 In many of the states the purposes for... | |
| Henry Budd, Ardemus Stewart - 1896 - 828 páginas
...certainly is the most scientific, is that of Justice GRAY, in the case cited above : " 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... | |
| Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1896 - 668 páginas
...Massachusetts, in Jackson v. Phillips, 14 Allen, 556, says: "A charity, in the legal sense, may b« more fully defined as a gift to be applied consistently...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... | |
| Civic Club of Philadelphia. Committee of the Social Science Section - 1896 - 388 páginas
...Camden in Jones vs. Williams, Ambler, 651. I lao, Pennsylvania, 1888. when he said :* "A charity in the legal sense may be more fully defined as a gift to be applied consistently with the existing laws for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds... | |
| Frank Sumner Rice, William Lawrence Clark - 1897 - 806 páginas
...the law, and leaves nothing to be added. In his words " a 'charity' in the legal sense, may be more 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, or... | |
| 1897 - 1088 páginas
...Phillips, 14 Allen, 539, 556, as follows: "A charity, in legal sense, may be more fully defined as a (rift to be applied, consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, cither by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion; by... | |
| New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels - 1898 - 894 páginas
...[US] 506.) He then gave his own definition of the word "charity," as follows : " 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 or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by... | |
| Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - 1898 - 716 páginas
...promote the well doing and well being of social man." 2 Perry on Trusts, Sees. 697, 687. " A charity in a legal sense may be more fully defined as a gift, to...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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