OF CHARITIES AND MORTMAIN BEING THE FOURTH EDITION OF TUDOR'S CHARITABLE TRUSTS. BY LEONARD SYER BRISTOWE, A JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT OF THE TRANSVAAL; CECIL ARTHUR HUNT, M.A., LL.B., CANTAB., AND HALFORD GAY BURDETT, B.A., CANTAB., OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTERS-AT-LAW. LONDON: SWEET AND MAXWELL, LIMITED, 3, CHANCERY LANE, W.C. REEVES & TURNER, BREAMS BUILDINGS, CHANCERY LANE, E.C. SEVENTEEN years have elapsed since the publication of the Third Edition of "Tudor's Charitable Trusts," during which period many enactments affecting the law relating to Charities and Mortmain have come into operation. Amongst others the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1891, the Local Government Act, 1894, and the Board of Education Act, 1899, have been added to the Statute Book, while there has also been a large increase in the volume of Charity Case law. Hence the need of a further Edition. When the Third Edition, which was published in 1888, was undertaken by Mr. L. S. Bristowe and Mr. W. I. Cook, it was found impossible, owing to new legislation of an important character, to re-issue the book in the form adopted in the Second Edition. The latter (a slender Volume of some 300 pages, and the last Edition with which the late Mr. Tudor was personally associated) required to be almost entirely re-cast, and was, for the purpose of the Third Edition, utilised merely as a foundation upon which to base the new work. The present Volume also, in arrangement as well as in material, differs largely from its predecessor. Nevertheless it has been thought advisable in the interests of the profession to make no change in the original title of the book. In the course of the preparation of the present work Mr. L. S. Bristowe was appointed a Judge of the High Court of the Transvaal Colony, and was thus precluded from taking further part in its compilation. The general scheme and arrangement of the treatise had, however, at the time of his appointment, to a great extent been decided upon, |