A Practical Treatise of the Law of Mortmain, and Charitable Uses and Trusts, Volume 1

J. S. Littell, 1842 - Charities - 509 pages

The pages referred to are those between brackets	9

CHAPTER I	23

How such licenses were formerly granted and when neces	45

Of the dispensation with the statutes of mortmain in favour of particular corporations 1 Foundation of hospitals	50

Workhouses 3 Augmentation of small livings	55

Parsonage houses	56

Building of new churches 6 Corporations	57

CHAPTER II	61

360	278

380	280

398	282

Pleademurrermultifariousness	283

424	285

428	301

430	302

444	305

Gifts for general and public purposes	72

Of uses and trusts not charitable	76

Of superstitious uses and trusts 1 Definition of superstitious uses	80

Statute of 1 Edw VI c 14 and construction thereof 3 Protestant dissenters	90

Jews 5 Unitarians 6 Roman Catholics	93

58	99

Of reservations to the grantor	102

Of devises and bequests within the statute 9 Geo II c 36	112

195	148

Of the right of heirs at law devisees and next of kin of testa	155

227	169

Of exemptions from the statute 9 Geo II c 36	178

CHAPTER IV	199

Of the inquiry by commission 2 Who may be commissioners 3 Of the inquisition 4 Of the decree of the commissioners of charitable uses 5 Of exemp...	204

Of the commissioners appointed for making inquiries concerning charities	220

Of the visitation of charities 1 Of the nature and origin of visitatorial power 2 Of visitation in right of the crown	234

Exception in favour of English universities and colleges	244

Of the appointment of special visiters	249

Of the powers of visiters	269

Of interference by mandamus in cases of eleemosynary founda tions	271

Of proceedings by information 300	272

446	313

455	319

467	326

481	335

Of petitions under 52 Geo III c 101	336

CHAPTER V	356

Hospitals	368

Usage admitted in construing charitable gifts	374

Of the doctrine of cypres or approximation to the donors inten	414

656	449

CHAPTER VI	460

Of the alienation of estates belonging to charities	470

Of leases which have been set aside	476

Of persons incapable of taking leases of charity estates	482

68	492

100	496

108	498

Devises by freemen according to the custom of London	499

713	503

109	505

Title	A Practical Treatise of the Law of Mortmain, and Charitable Uses and Trusts, Volume 1 A Practical Treatise of the Law of Mortmain, and Charitable Uses and Trusts, Leonard Shelford Volume 36, Issue 1 - Volume 37, Issue 2 of In The Law library. Philadelphia, 1842 Volume 37, Issue 1 of Law library
Author	Leonard Shelford
Publisher	J. S. Littell, 1842
Original from	the New York Public Library
Digitized	13 Apr 2009
Length	509 pages

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