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CHAPTER IV.
OF THE JURISDICTION RESPECTING CHARITABLE USES
AND TRUSTS.
SECTION I. Of the prerogative of the crown
1. Of the right of the crown as parens patriæ
2. Of the disposition of charitable funds by the
king's sign manual
II. Of the commission of charitable uses
Page.
. 267
ib.
269
1. Of the inquiry by commission
2. Who may be commissioners
3. Of the inquisition
4. Of the decree of the commissioners of chari-
table uses
. 276
. 280
281
292
5. Of exemptions from the statute of charitable
III. Of the commissioners appointed for making in-
quiries concerning charities
IV. Of the visitation of charities .
1. Of the nature and origin of visitatorial power ib.
2. Of visitation in right of the crown
3. Of the appointment of special visitors
4. Of the powers of visitors
5. Of interference by mandamus in cases of elee-
1. Of the attorney general acting on behalf of
the crown in charities
2. When the court of chancery has no juris-
diction
3. When the attorney general is a necessary party 411
4. Protestant dissenters may proceed by informa-
tion-when and when not
5. Of informations respecting funds applicable
9. Directions for establishing charities will be
given notwithstanding informality in infor-
mation .
444
10. Plea-demurrer-multifariousness
446
.
11. Of the accounts which will be directed of
charity estates
455
1. Of petitions under 52 Geo. III. c. 101
2. Of petitions in the name of the attorney ge-
neral
3. Of petitions for the appointment of trustees . 498
4. Of petitions under private acts of parlia-
. 467
481
497
ment
508
CHAPTER V.
OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF GIFTS TO CHARITIES, AND THE
ADMINISTRATION OF THE FUNDS.
SECTION I. Favourable construction of charitable gifts
512
1. Legacies to charities favoured in the civil law 513
2. Defective assurances in favour of charities
4. Cases where neither trustees nor objects are
named, but there is a reference to a future
appointment not made
5. Cases where no trustees are named, but there
is a reference to a class of objects without
naming any individuals
6. Cases of bequests to trustees for such charitable
purposes as they in their discretion shall ap-
point where objects are or are not named .
7. Cases of failure of trustees, and of persons to
select objects arising ex post facto
II. Cases where charities are entitled to the whole
income of estates, or to fixed payments only 538
1. Where the whole rents are devoted to charity
2. Usage admitted in construing charitable gifts 562
3. Where the donee of the fund is entitled to the
surplus rents, subject to fixed payments
4. Of the acceptance of estates given in trust for
charities
SECTION III. Of the doctrine of cy-pres or approximation to the
donor's intention
1. Where the particular objects named have failed
or cannot take
2. Where the fund is more than sufficient for the
objects specified
567
597
. 601
613
629
3. Of the application of the doctrine of cy-pres to
the regulation of grammar schools .
4. When the doctrine of cy-pres will not be applied 648
5. Of the settlement of a scheme for the applica-
tion of charitable funds
6. Of the apportionment of charitable funds
IV. Of bequests to charity void for uncertainty
651
656
. 662
CHAPTER VI.
OF THE ALIENATION OF ESTATES BELONGING TO CORPO-
RATIONS AND CHARITIES.
SECTION I. Of the alienation of estates belonging to municipal
II. Of the alienation of estates belonging to elee-
mosynary corporations
672
680
III. Of the alienation of estates belonging to charities 687
1. Of sales and leases which have been held valid ib.
2. Of leases which have been set aside
4. How far underleases will be affected where
the original leases are declared to be void
5. Of persons incapable of taking leases of charity
estates
6. Power, of leasing lands given for the mainte-
nance of highways
OF THE
CHAPTER VII.
APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF PERSONS CONNECTED
WITH ELEEMOSYNARY FOUNDATIONS AND CHARITIES.
SECTION I. Of college elections.
:
II. Of the election of curates and chaplains by in-
habitants.
717
721
III. Of the appointment and removal of schoolmasters 725
IV. Of the appointment and removal of trustees ge-
nerally
735
V. Of the appointment and removal of ministers and
trustees of dissenters' establishments
742
1. Deviation from the intention of the founder
will not be allowed
2. Of the election and removal of dissenting mi-
nisters.
. 762
3. Of the appointment and removal of trustees. 766
VI. Of the nomination of objects by trustees
768
CHAPTER VIII.
OF THE LIABILITY TO, AND EXEMPTION FROM, THE PAY-
MENT OF TAXES IN RESPECT OF CHARITIES.
SECTION I. Of the liability of charitable bequests to the pay-
ment of legacy duty
773
II. When indentures of apprenticeship are or are not
exempt from stamp duty, and what is not a
public parochial fund
III. When charitable institutions are or are not exempt
from poor and church rates
IV. Of the provisions respecting charities in the
statutes relating to the land tax .
CHAPTER IX.
OF THE RIGHT OF VOTING FOR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT IN
RESPECT OF CHARITIES, AND HOW FAR THE RECEIPT OF ALMS
OR CHARITY IS A DISQUALIFICATION.
1. Of schoolmasters' right of voting
2. Dissenting ministers generally disqualified to vote
3. When the receipt of alms or charity is or is not a disquali-
fication.
4. Receipt of alms or charity a disqualification under the
act for regulating municipal corporations
798
800
802
807