A SUCCINCT VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF MORTMAIN; AND THE STATUTES RELATIVE TO Charitable Uses; WITH A FULL EXPOSITION OF THE LAST STATUTE OF MORTMAIN, 9 GEO. II. c. 36. AND ITS SUBSEQUENT ALTERATIONS: COMPRISING THE LAW AS IT NOW STANDS RELATIVE TO DEVISES, BEQUESTS, VISITATION, PUBLIC CHARITIES. THE SECOND EDITION, WITH MANY ADDITIONAL CASES, AND SEVERAL NOT HITHERTO REPORTED. BY ANTHONY HIGHMORE, GENT. "Ita semper quod pia et celeberrima voluntas donatorum in omnibus teneatur St. de Templariis, 17 Ed. II. 8 Co. 131. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. BUTTERWORTH, FLEET-STREET; AND J. COOKE, ORMOND-QUAY, DUBLIN. 1809. RT. HON. SIR WILLIAM GRANT, M. P. MASTER OF THE ROLLS, &c. &c. &c. WHOSE EXTENSIVE LEARNING AND CORRECT JUDGMENT HAVE ALWAYS DISTINGUISHED HIS DECISIONS; AND TO WHOM THE JUST DEFERENCE DUE TO THE JUDGE IS GRATEFULLY ENLARGED BY THE VENERATION DUE TO THE MAN, THE FOLLOWING WORK, AS A TRIBUTE OF UNFEIGNED RESPECT, IS INSCRIBED, WITH HIS ASSENT, BY HIS HONOR'S OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, ANTHONY HIGHMORE. No.33, Ely-Place, Trinity Term, 1809. |