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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restriction repealed, 384-Why the number was restricted, 387, 389, 391-Devise to purchase them good, 380-If any surplus, how disposed of, 392 Alienations restrained, 18' Alien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,
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,
Eath infirmary, 355-May take in mortmain, 365, 373
Beadsmen, what, 445, 448
Beard, Mrs, her bequests for poor of
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, 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,
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
Cestuy que use, not in esse, 210 Cestuy que vie, 438
Chancery, its extensive jurisdiction,
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-
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
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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