 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1914 - 768 pages
...charity as follows : "A charity in its legal sense may be more fully defined as a gift to be applied consistently with existing laws for the benefit of...of education or religion, by relieving their bodies of disease, suffering or constraint, by assisting them to establish themselves in life, or by erecting... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1898 - 924 pages
...JfS Eliz. — in which he says: "A charity, in a legal sense, may be defined as a gift to be applied consistently with existing laws 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 pages
...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 laws 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... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1905 - 808 pages
...Justice Gray says : "A charity, in its 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 parsons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1908 - 726 pages
...charity as follows : "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...maintaining public buildings or works or otherwise lessening the burdens of government. It is immaterial whether the purpose is called charitable in the gift itself,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1920 - 684 pages
...Gray, J., as follows: "A charity, in a legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift, to be applied, consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of...indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1910 - 726 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1899 - 1354 pages
...fair definition is found in Jackson v. Phillips, 14 Allen, 539: " A charity is a gift, to be applied, consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of...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 pages
...case.1 The court here, in denning charitable trusts in the abstract, say it is a gift to be applied, consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of...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 pages
...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, for the benefit of...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... | |
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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,... 
