ABBEYS, &c. in London, 7-Date of
their decline, 17

Aberbury, Sir R.'s hospital at Don-
nington, 444.

Aberdeen lunatic hospital, 302
Abuses, how rectified, 57-When
without redress, 418 - How re-
dressed in modern charities, 430
Academical institution ceased, a be-
quest for it void, 160

Acceptance of a bequest, how far
binding on the terms of it, 319-Of
a new lease, 436-Of a void lease,
438

Action of debt on lease of tythes, &c.

restriction repealed, 384-Why the
number was restricted, 387, 389,
391-Devise to purchase them
good, 380-If any surplus, how
disposed of, 392
Alienations restrained, 18'
Alien priories surrendered, 23
Alms of plough lands, &c. 29-- Chest
in churches, 29

Alms-houses different from hospitals,

10

Amliguity as to one or two legacies,
291

America, Boyle's legacy for colleges
there, 306

Americans, the post-nati, 214, 315
Ambrose, St. his anger at restraints
in mortmain, 17

Andrew, Dr. his will for Trinity col-
lege, 318

Andrew, St. Holborn, charity school,
360

Anne, Q. relinquished tenths, 75

's bounty founded, 75-Takes
lands and purchases land-tax, 78-
Of legacies to, 181--Why void, 184
Account of exemption, 377
Annuities

Annuities formerly not in mortmain,
18-If devised over void, 145–
Bequeathed to churchwardens for a
family vault, 147-8-To educate
boys, 149-Different from a rent-
charge, 155-Out of personal es-
tate good to a charity, 157, 211-
secured on lands, " or otherwise,"
good, 174, 177-to a minister vest-
ed in land, 184, 192-The lands
not discharged, although there re-
main no object for the charity, 305
-But if granted after objects ceas.
ed, 340

Appointment referred to but not found,

257, 266, 278-Under 43 Eliz.
105-Whether in a visitor or the
court, 423

Apprentices, their binding, 68-Fees
to be paid to the parson, 70- Duty
on binding, 503-As from a public
charity, 503
Ascetics, 5, 7

Assets of marshalling. See Marshalling
Athanasius, St. 5

Attorney-general, his office as to cha-
rities, 237. See Practice
Augmentation of livings, estates, &c.
See Extension, Advowson-Of uni-
versity, a gift for, is a charitable
use, 207-Of livings, another cha-
rity substituted, 353
Augustine, St. a benedictine, 8
Aurengzele, his saying relative to hos-
pitals, 10

BANCHOR monastery, 5

Baptists tolerated, bequest for, good,
147

Barrow, J. his legacy for small gifts,

281

Eath infirmary, 355-May take in
mortmain, 365, 373

Beadsmen, what, 445, 448

Beard, Mrs, her bequests for poor of

Chester, &c. 291

Becket's shrine, its produce, 29
Bedford level, 71-Leases registered,
444

school, 400
Benedictines, the earliest order in Eng-
land, S
Bequests without notice of a charita-
ble use, 66-One depending upon
another, and that void, 168-If
two-fold, one lawful and the other
unlawful, executors may execute
the former, 175-If more than ade-
quate, 187-Ambiguities supplied,
228-Over, of what a testator's son
should die possessed, 240-To the
church, 240-To the poor of the
parish, 240-To a charity, the dis-
position must be in that mode, 311
-To a college, for a purpose
not effected, 319-For distribu-
tion of books, 279- For a ward,
264

Bethlem hospital, 300
Bevan, Mrs. her will for Welch
schools, 128

Blind persons, charity for, 294, and
seq.-No hospital for, 295-7—
School for, in St. George's Fields,
298 At Liverpool, 298-At
Edinburgh, 299-At Norwich,
299

Bolton school, 417

Books

Books, Bradley's legacy for, 279
Bena Ecclesia, 67

Botanic garden, within the statute, 128
Bounty, if personal to trustee, whe-
ther within the statute, 194–Whe-
ther connected with charitable use,
195

Boyle, Hon. Robt. his will, 305
Bowles, Wm. his will to purchase and
build, 220

Bread-street ward, legacy for, 264
Briages, legacy for building, 121
Brown's, John, will for Essex-street
chapel, and academy at Hackney,

158

Browne, Wm. will for Winton col-
lege, 361

Building, not necessary when, 130,
132, 140-On ground already in
mortmain good, 166-7-To pur-
chase for building bad, 166-7-A
chapel void as to the minister, 168
-A church, 189-Legacy for, 213
On ground hired, not purchased,
221-A parsonage, 224-Or an
alms-house, 231

CAM, Mrs. her will, discretion to trus-
tees, 250

Canal shares, void legacies to chari-
ties, 170

Canterbury hospitals, 241
Caroon house, 243

Century, the 15th, deplorable state of

the faith, 23

Cestuy que use, not in esse, 210
Cestuy que vie, 438

Chancery, its extensive jurisdiction,

2 P

207-Antiquity, 212-In case of
uncertainty, 278-May remove
trustees, 421

Chantries, what, 33-Sale of them
how applied, 33

Chapman's will, for boys at Raven.
stoke, 187

Charges on land void, 156-When
first applied, 360

Charitable use defined, 59-Beyond
relief of the poor, 93

Charitable corporation, its history, 521
donations in general, of re-

gistring, 555

Charity, the first distribution of, 4—

Of those settled in Elizabeth's time,
57-Defined, 60, 121-Placed on
real estate cannot subsist, 130-
Always supported by the court, 133
-If illegal, 261-Since Elizabeth
protected by statute, 64-Legacies
for, preferred formerly, 67-May
be improved not changed, 144-
Legacy to one which had ceased,
158, 354-In place of specialty cre
ditors, 362-If illegal, 261-If su-
perstitious, 262-The term is not
too general to throw out a charita-
ble bequest, 266, 270-Defined,
283, 5, 9-If no objects, 304—
When lands revert to the crown,
352-If its institution be subse-
quent to a will, cannot take, 552
—Public and private, distinct, 553
Charles I. augmented the bishoprics,
74

Charles I. his letters missive, 412
Charters, their objects, 48- Defective
as to succession and election, 406
Charter-house:

Charter-house. See Sutton's hospital

Chelsea college, 79

Christ ans, distinction between vulgar

and ascetics, 5

Christianity, primitive state in Europe,
3 Promoted by charities, 4
Christ's hospital, trustees for Hether-
ington's charity, 294-Its agree-
ment with the City, 531
Chaunting, a pa ticular version, 513
Churches, union of, 72-Their in-

creasing splendour. 7-The like in
temp. Edward I 14-Legacy for
building one, 189

Churchwardens take goods for the
church, 67-Duty as to poor ap-
prentices, 70-Not a corporation to
take, 148

Contract, if void, cannot imply agree-

ment to give up a former contract,
437
Conveyance, a defective, rectified, 385
-Of lands of trustees, 54, 98

Copyhold lauds devised not surren

dered, S4, 100, 197, 211
Coram, founder of Foundling hosp.374
Cornwall, duchy of, granted to Prince
of Wales, 346

Corporations defined, 47, 395-In-
fraction of their laws not criminal,
48-If made trustees the truss
not defeated, when, 250-If no ob
jects remain, 341-If dissolved do
the lands revert, 342, 351-A ma-
jority of members necessary for
leases or clection, 344-Cannot
change the number of members for
courts, 417-A conveyance to of-
ficers of, rectified, 385-Powers to
them vest in successors, 396- For
charity, 401-Under control of
Chancery, 414-Their tenancy de-
termined on notice to officers, 441
Courts, extent of jurisdiction in cha-
rity cases, 265-Where trustees are
dead, 271-In general cases, 282
In good or bad administration of
trusts, 289-Have not executed a
trust unless defined, 288
Cracherode, Mrs. her unlimited trust,
282

Creating or founding, 215
Crown, when it has the right of dis-

posing of a charity, 34-As to super-
stitious uses, 36, 37—Power of par
don, 49, 396-Protects charities,
as parens patriæ, 56-Its dispensing
power,

power, 74-Whether it has the
disposal on the death of a trustee,
254--Or when the object is point-
ed out, 254 Has a superintendance
over all charities, 255-When it
disposes of a charity, 258 to 261,
269, 289-Not if the charity be
illegal, 261-Whether lands grant-
ed by, revert to, on failure of the
charity, 345-Issues letters manda
tory to Cambr. 412-Property be-
longing to the crown, 412
Crusades, 13

Cy pres, nature of this doctrine, 122,
144,211--Its origin in forf: iture, 165
- Defined, 238, 311, 312-Lately
restrained, 264 Does not hold
when the legacy cannot be execut-
ed, 268-Where a trust is clogged
by conditions, 321-How it applies
to a legacy for specific gifts of
clothes, &c. 332-As to poor in-
habitants, 334-As to apprentices,
335-Where there remain no ob-
jects, 336-Where the charity can-
not take place, 390-Where it de-
volves to the crown, 412-Where a
hospital is dissolved, 444

the statute of wills, 60-In writing,
61-Parol, 64- Of lands, 99--
Within the statute of frauds, 107-
Conditional if the estate be accept-
ed the condition must be fulfilled,
123-Over, does not defeat the life-
interest, 123-To a corporation
void, 125-For a school, bad as a
charity, but good as to the objects,
126-Without building, 126-To
increase the poor knights of Wind-
sor, 127-For intended uses, 200—
Of lands altered afterwards, 205-
Not void, unless too obscure, 207
- In futuro how taken, 209-For
erecting and building, 215-To pur-
chace land for erecting and building,
226-Of real estate and mortgages,
fall to the crown, 249
Devolution, what, 410
Dioclesian's rescript, 3
Discovery, what defendants must an-
swer, 114, and seq.-Compelled by
the court, 120

Discretion, unlimitted to a trustee,
280, 2, 9-Imports gift, 308
Disherison prohibited, 153-Intended
by statute, 229

Dispensing power, 73, 95--Abolish-
ed, 90- Revested in the crown for
charitable purposes, 97

Dissenters, legacy to the fund for poor
ministers, 247

Distribution, statute of its object, 187
Doles at a funeral, 242

Dawning college,201-Chartered 214
Drapers Company part-trustees of
Stock's charity, 296
Druids, their influence, 1

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