 | Anthony Highmore - Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations - 1809 - 648 pages
...Chcpstow, forAmb. osi. the use of the inhabitants for ever. Lord Chancellor Camden defined charity to be a gift to a general public use, which extends to the poor as well as to the rich ; of which there are many instances in the statute 43 Eliz. as for building bridges, &c. the supplying... | |
 | Anthony Highmore - Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations - 1809 - 632 pages
...Amb. osu u« use of the inhabitants for ever. Lord Chancellor Camden defined charity to be a gift 'oa general public use, which extends to the poor as well as to the rich ; of which there are many instances in the statute 43 Eliz. as for building bridges, &c. the ' ' supplying... | |
 | Peter Lovelass - Inheritance and succession - 1823 - 470 pages
...the statute of mortmain as a public charitable use. — Lord Chancellor. Definition of a charity; a gift to a general public use, which extends to the poor as well as to the rich; many instances in the statute 43 Eliz. carrying this idea, as for building bridges, &c. The supplying... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Chancery, William Johnson - Equity - 1824 - 748 pages
...mortmain, because it was to arise out of land ; but Lord Chancellor Camden defined a charity to be, " a gift to a general public use, which extends to the poor as well as the rich ;" many instances in the statute of 43 'KHz. carrying this idea, as for building bridges,... | |
 | William Ward - Legacies - 1826 - 536 pages
...the benefit of the donor; and that all other gifts shall be void. A charity has been defined to be a gift to a general public use, which extends to the poor as well as to the rich.c The preamble to the statute of Elizabeth regarding charitable uses,d specifies as such, gifts... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...these senses is it used by the statutes of mortmain. Lord chancellor C'ambden defined charity to be a gift to a general public use, which extends to the poor as well as the rich, of which there are many instances in the statute 43 Eliz. c. 4., as for building bridges,... | |
 | Ireland - 1827 - 204 pages
...I have always preferred the useful to the showy ; and, desirous of rendering my History accessible to the poor as well as to the rich, it will be published in weekly Numbers, price Sixpence, or in Parts, price Two Shillings each. It will be got... | |
 | Leonard Shelford - Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations - 1836 - 1090 pages
...advancement of objects of general public utility. 2. Gifts to the poor. ,] Charity has been defined to be a gift to a general public use, which extends to the poor as well as to the rich (y). Poverty is the principal and essential circumstance for bringing a gift within the words, " for... | |
 | Francis Stack Murphy, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - Law reports, digests, etc - 1838 - 416 pages
...the inhabitants for ever : Lord Camden, in giving judgment, says, " The definition of charity is, a gift to a general public use, which extends to the poor as well as the rich; and there are many instances of the statute of 43rd Eliz. carrying this idea, as for building... | |
 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - Wills - 1866 - 1102 pages
...supplying water for the use of the inhabitants of a town. His lordship said, " The supplying of " a gift to a general public use, which extends to the poor as well as the rich." And in Pennsylvania a bequest, to be applied under the direction of the Society of Friends,... | |
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A gift to a general public use, which extends to the poor as well as to the rich. 
