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FontaIn Vs. Ravenel
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- Jan 01, 1854
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U.S. 369 (1854) U.S. Supreme Court Fontain v. RavenelSearch
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U.S. 17 How. 369 369 (1854) Fontain v. RavenelSearch
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the laws of Pennsylvania. This is according to the course of the Court. The case of Philadelphia Baptist Association v. Hart'sSearch
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Wheat. 1, was decided under the laws of Virginia, which had repealed the statute of 43 Elizabeth. In Beatty v. KurtzSearch
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Pet. 566, the pious use of a burial ground was sustained under the Bill of Rights of Maryland. The case of Wheeler v. SmithSearch
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How. 55, was ruled under the laws of Virginia. And in the case of Vidal v. Girard'sSearch
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Executors, 2 How. 127, the laws of Pennsylvania governed. In Wheeler v. SmithSearch
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usage and constitutional recognition the principles of the statute are acted upon in cases involving charities. Witman v. LexSearch
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Serg. & Rawle 88. In the argument, the case of Moggridge v. ThackwellSearch
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being the case, it is difficult to say that that case is identical with the one before us. The case of Moggridge v. ThackwellSearch
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In Clifford v. FrancisSearch
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to show that it contains a doctrine precisely the same as Attorney General v. SyderfinSearch
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and Attorney General v. MatthewsSearch
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to property, whether by a King or Chancellor, or both, leads to uncertainty and injustice. In a late case of Clark v. TaylorSearch
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And in the case of Attorney General v. FloodSearch
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that the cy pres power is given, and in the exercise of jurisdiction it seems to be disclaimed. In King v. RundleSearch
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to the religious bodies were held invalid, and so of the remainder over, as not being statutory tests. In Yates v. YatesSearch
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And again, in Wright v. LinnSearch
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In Methodist Church v. RemingtonSearch
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In Ray v. AdamsSearch
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Page 58 U. S. 391 In the case of Ommanney v. ButcherSearch
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And in the case of Baptist Association v. Hart'sSearch
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a diversity of opinion upon this subject in England as well as in this country. In the case of the Baptist Association v. Hart'sSearch
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were both at that time of opinion that it was derived from the statute. But in Vidal v. Girard'sSearch
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to do so might vest these powers in the courts of the state. Such an inquiry was necessary in the case of Vidal v. Girard'sSearch
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Executors and of Wheeler v. SmithSearch
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representatives of the parens patriae -- that is, the state sovereignty. And in the case of Baptist Association v. HartSearch
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Much of the learned and elaborate opinion of this Court, delivered by the late Justice Story in the case of Vidal v. Girard'sSearch
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created under the authority of the British Parliament. Indeed, the decision of this Court in the case of Vidal v. Girard'sSearch
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a charity. It is somewhat curious to observe that the opinion of Lord Redesdale in the case of Attorney General v. MayorSearch
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to in support of the doctrine now promulgated when that same case is avouched and relied on in the case of Vidal v. Girard'sSearch
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virtue of the prerogative. So too it is affirmed by this Court, nemine contradicente, in the case of Vidal v. Girard'sSearch
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Executors, that Lord Chancellor Sugden, in the case of Incorporated Society v. RichardsSearch
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of the Statute of Elizabeth. Upon a just understanding of the opinion of the Court in the case of Vidal v. Girard'sSearch
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enforce such devises. These conclusions seem to follow inevitably from the ruling of this Court in the case of Vidal v. Girard'sSearch
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U.S. Supreme Court Fontain v. RavenelSearch
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of Philadelphia Baptist Association v. Hart'sSearch
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Elizabeth. In Beatty v. KurtzSearch
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of Wheeler v. SmithSearch
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of Vidal v. Girard'sSearch
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In Wheeler v. SmithSearch
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Witman v. LexSearch
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of Moggridge v. ThackwellSearch
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Attorney General v. SyderfinSearch
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of Clark v. TaylorSearch
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of Attorney General v. FloodSearch
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In King v. RundleSearch
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In Yates v. YatesSearch
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Wright v. LinnSearch
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of Ommanney v. ButcherSearch
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