CHAP. I. Of the Establishment and Decline

of Monastic Institutions ...

II. Of the Restraints of Alienations in

Mortmain to the Period of the

OF MORTMAIN AND CHARITABLE USES.

CHAP. I. Of the Statute of 9 Geo. II. c. 36. 83

Sect. 1. Preliminary Observations

2. Of Purchasing Lands....

92

94

10. The Doctrine of Cy Pres 311

11. Of Marshalling Assets.. 355

12. Of Inrollment

369

CHAP. II. Of Exemptions from the Statute 372

III. Qf Advowsons

IV. Of Scotland

380

394

V. Of Charitable Loans at Interest;

and of Interest when chargeable 519

Sect.

Page

Sect. 1. Of Loans at Interest .... 519

2. Of Interest when charge-

able

CHAP. VI. Of Nuisance..

VII. Of the Agreement between the Cor-

poration of London and the

Royal Hospitals connected

therewith.....

VIII. Of Friendly Societies...

527

528

531.

540

IX. Of the Term Public Charities.. 550

X. Of Charitable Donations in ge-

INTRODUCTION.

In presenting this second edition to the scrutiny and attention of the profession, if it may be deemed worthy of their notice, I cannot recur without grateful satisfaction to the manner in which the first was received, and the present has been called for; and as I then had great reason to solicit their favourable extenuation, I have no less earnest anxiety at this time to entreat their accustomed candour: the work will be found to have been much enlarged by the addition of most, if not all of the subsequent cases, to this period, which I have either found in the several reports, or which the kindness of some professional friends have communicated, and of others which have arisen in my own practice. That I might not extend the work too far, my desire of brevity has induced me to avoid the insertion of every case that has occurred; but all those which are the most material have been carefully noticed, and their principal points detailed; and

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