 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1905 - 808 lapas
...to be applied, consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of parsons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the...buildings or works, or otherwise lessening the burdens of government. It is immaterial whether the purpose is called charitable in the gift itself, if it be... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1914 - 768 lapas
...bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies of disease, suffering or constraint, by assisting them...buildings or works, or otherwise lessening the burdens of government. It is immaterial whether the purpose is called charitable in the gift itself, if it be... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1908 - 726 lapas
...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...buildings or works or otherwise lessening the burdens of government. It is immaterial whether the purpose is called charitable in the gift itself, if it is... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1910 - 726 lapas
...relieving their bodies from disease, suffering or constraint, by assisting them to establish themselves for life, or by erecting or maintaining public buildings or works or otherwise lessening the burthens of government. It is immaterial whether the purpose is called charitable in the gift itself,... | |
 | John Adams - 1873 - 930 lapas
...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,...themselves in life, or by erecting or maintaining public works, or otherwise lessening the burdens of government : [Per Gray, J.,] Jackson v. Phillips, 14 Allen... | |
 | GEO. TUCKER BISPHAM - 1874 - 610 lapas
...existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds or their hearts under the influence of education or religion,...buildings or works, or otherwise lessening the burdens of government. It is immaterial whether the purpose is called charitable in the gift itself, if it is... | |
 | Sir Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams - 1877 - 816 lapas
...and then gives a more elaborate and practical definition of his own. " A charity," he says, " in a legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift,...buildings or works or otherwise lessening the burdens of government. It is immaterial whether the purpose is called charitable in the gift itself, if it is... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1879 - 1054 lapas
...hearts the influence of education or religion. IT relieving their bodies from disea*v, »iiHtring. or constraint, by assisting them to establish themselves in life, or by erectins "Г maintaining public buildings or work*, or otherwise lessening the burdens of g<iT.-nv... | |
 | John Adams - 1881 - 948 lapas
...minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disense, suffering or constraint; by assisting them to establish...themselves in life, or by erecting or maintaining public works or otherwise lessening the burdens of government/' Other definitions will be found in Jones v.... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - 1882 - 844 lapas
...hearts under the iulluence of education or religion; by relieving their bodies from disease, Buffering, or constraint; by assisting them to establish themselves in life; or by erecting or maintaining public works; or otherwise lessening the burdens of government." This may nut lie an exhaustive description... | |
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A charity, in the legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift, to be applied, consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion,... 
