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| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1914 - 768 páginas
...supreme court, in Jadeson v. Phillips, 96 Mass. 539, defines a charity as follows : "A charity in its legal sense may be more fully defined as a gift to...hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies of disease, suffering or constraint, by assisting them to establish themselves... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1905 - 808 páginas
...list. In Jackson v. Phillips et al., 9-6 Mass. 539, 566 (1867), Justice Gray says : "A charity, in its legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift,...existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of parsons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1898 - 924 páginas
...instances contained in the statute of JfS Eliz. — in which he says: "A charity, in a legal sense, may be defined as a gift to be applied consistently with...for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons * * * by erecting or maintaining public buildings or works or otherwise lessening the burdens of government."... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1878 - 738 páginas
...Snug Harbor, 3 Pet. 115. The object is clear, and it is a charitable one in the legal sense. It is a gift " to be applied consistently with existing...for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons by bringing their hearts under the influence of education and religion." The institution known as the... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1908 - 726 páginas
...Justice Gray, in the case of Jackson v. Phillips, supra, on page 556, defined a charity as follows : "A charity, in the legal sense, may be more fully...hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering or constraint, by assisting them to establish themselves... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1920 - 684 páginas
...use is found in Jackson v. Phillips, 14 Allen, 556, given by Gray, J., as follows: "A charity, in a legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift,...indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering... | |
| 1899 - 1354 páginas
...of the State. A very fair definition is found in Jackson v. Phillips, 14 Allen, 539: " A charity is a gift, to be applied, consistently with existing...indefinite number of persons either by bringing their minds and hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering... | |
| Joseph Story - 1870 - 914 páginas
...discussed in a recent case.1 The court here, in denning charitable trusts in the abstract, say it is a gift to be applied, consistently with existing laws,...number of persons, either by bringing their minds and hearts under the influence of education or religion ; by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering,... | |
| John Adams - 1873 - 930 páginas
...Goulburn, 5 Hare 484 ; 1 Jarm. on Wills 192. 1 See Saltonstall r. Sanders, 11 Allen 446. A charity is a gift to be applied consistently with existing laws,...hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering or constraint ; by assisting them to establish themselves... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1873 - 764 páginas
...following as the definition of a charity so far as the objects of it are coucerned : "A charity in a legal sense may be more fully defined as a gift to...for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons." And in Fontaine vs. Ravenel, 17th Howard, 384, Judge McLean, in delivering the opinion of the Court,... | |
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