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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 C. 4, which is amongst the many statutes repealed by the consolidating (English) Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict.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 … Charities, or Public Trusts. One of the earliest fruits of the Emperor Constantine's zeal, or pretended zeal, for Christianity, was a permission

Cy-pres

extra-vagant length. But this sensible distinction now prevails, that the court will not decree the execution of a charitable trust in a manner different from that intended, except so far as it is seen that the intention cannot … 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 carried into effect either in

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consent by 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 37, repealed and reenacted by the consolidating mortmain and (English) Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict.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 … 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 73), in the manner pointed out under the title CHARITABLE USES AND TRUSTS. in regard to assurances of land or personalty or enactments declaring a charitable use executed after 1925, alterations

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Trust

Matched in: Term Trust

Official trustees of charitable funds

Matched in: Term Official trustees of charitable funds

Charity Commissioners

Charity Commissioners. The Charity Commissio-ners for England and Wales are a body appointed under the provisions of the Charitable Trusts Acts, 1853 to 1925, and their powers and duties are to be found in these Acts. They … Commissioners. The Charity Commissio-ners for England and Wales are a body appointed under the provisions of the Charitable Trusts Acts, 1853 to 1925, and their powers and duties are to be found in these Acts. They exercise

Trust corporation

Matched in: Term Trust corporation

Not involving the carrying on of any activity of profit

definition over that in the 1922 Act in order to bring a case within the fourth category of charitable purpose, it would be necessary to show that (1) the purpose of the trust is advancement of any

Public trustee

a deed of arrangement, nor the administration of an insolvent estate, nor a trust exclusively for religious or charitable purposes [s. 2, sub-sections (3), (4), (5)] The Con-solidated Fund is, speaking generally, liable to make good all

trustee

to whom property is committed to be administered for the benefit of a beneficiary (as a person or charitable organization) : the holder of legal title to property placed in a trust compare cestui que trust, settlor

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