The Case of Thetford School and Co: 1572

Land of the value of 351, a year was devised to certain persons, and their heirs, for the maintenance of a preacher, andc. of a master and usher, and of a grammar school, and of certain poor people: special distribution was made amongst them by the testator in the same will ; the sums distributed amounting itn the whole to 35l. Per annum, the then yearly profit of the land. The land became of greater value. Held, the devisees shall not take the surplus, but such surplus shall be expended in rnaintaining greater number of poor.
[1572] EngR 419, (1572-1616) 8 Co Rep 130, (1572) 77 ER 671
Commonlii
England and Wales

Updated: 20 October 2021; Ref: scu.432385