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Charitable purpose
Matched in: Term Charitable purpose
Wholly for religious or charitable purpose
Matched in: Term Wholly for religious or charitable purpose
trust
trust is to reduce the surviving spouse's taxable estate. Such trusts do not qualify for the marital deduction. charitable lead trust [-lēd-] : a trust in which a charity is named as the beneficiary for a period … account trust : totten trust in this entry business trust : a trust that is created for the purpose of making profit and that is usually characterized by some kind of commercial activity, transferable certificates of interest,
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Wakf
of any movable or immovable property for any purpose recognised by the Muslim law as pious, religious or charitable and includes, - (i) a wakf by user; (ii) grants (including mashrut-ul-khidmat) for any purpose recognised by the
Mortmain
consent by 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 37, repealed and reenacted by the consolidating mortmain and (English) Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 42), which provides that 'land''which term, by s. 10, includes … 1871, s. 7, hold only one acre of land, and Societies to promote Art, Science, Religion or like purposes not involving the acquisition of gain registered under the (English) Companies Act, 1929, may not, by s. 14
Charitable uses and trusts
Matched in: Term Charitable uses and trusts
Cy-pres
the testator's intention [Re Weir Hospital, (1910) 2 Ch 124]. See generally, Theobald on Wills. When the particular purpose for which a charitable trust is created fails or by reason of certain circumstances the trust cannot be … to a mixed fund. See Re Harwood, Coleman v. Innes, 1936 Ch 285. It is also applied to charitable bequests, and was formerly pushed to a most extra-vagant length. But this sensible distinction now prevails, that the
Pious purpose
Matched in: Term Pious purpose
Charities, or Public Trusts
to 43 Eliz. C. 4, which is amongst the many statutes repealed by the consolidating (English) Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 52); but s. 13, sub-s. 2, of that Act recites … whether a gift is charitable depends not on whether it may, but whether it must be applied to purposes strictly charitable; see Morice v. Bishop of Durham, (1904) 9 Ves 399 (406); Re Dovidson, (1909) 1 Ch
Institutions
institution was given (Mirehouse on Advow., p. 187). (3) A society for promoting any public object, as a charitable or benevolent institution, or literary and scientific institutions. (4) In the Civil Law, the appointment of a debtor … Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority,
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