A trust had been established in England for the advancement of Christianity among ‘infidels in America’. Acting on information that after the American War of Independence, there were no longer any infidels within the areas designated, and that the charity was lacking in objects, and also acting on information that the College of William and Mary, which had acted in the local administration of the charity, was now ‘subject to a foreign power’, the independent States of America, the Court directed a new scheme to be made for the administration of the charity.
Lord Thurlow L-C
(1790) Bro CC 171
England and Wales
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Cited – Gaudiya Mission and others v Brahmachary CA 30-Jul-1997
The High Court had found the plaintiff to be a charity, and ordered the Attorney-General to be joined in. The A-G appealed that order saying that the plaintiff was not a charity within the 1993 Act. The charity sought to spread the Vaishnava . .
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