 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1914 - 768 sider
...Phillips, 96 Mass. 539, defines a charity as follows : "A charity in its legal sense may be more fully defined as a gift to be applied consistently with...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 sider
...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 - 1905 - 808 sider
...al., 9-6 Mass. 539, 566 (1867), 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... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1878 - 738 sider
...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... | |
 | 1899 - 1354 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1873 - 764 sider
...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 be applied (consistently with...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,... | |
 | GEO. TUCKER BISPHAM - 1874 - 610 sider
...Court of Massachusetts, in the case of Jackson v. Phillips, has defined a charity in its legal sense as a gift, to be applied consistently with existing...number of persons, either by bringing their minds or their hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease,... | |
 | 1920 - 496 sider
...& S. Ry. Co. v. Williams, USS C 40 Sup. Ct. 71. 15. CharltleH — Gift Defined. — A "charity" 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... | |
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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 and hearts under the influence of education or religion,... 
