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Attorney-General v Sturge: 4 Nov 1854

The testatrix had left funds to support a school in Genoa.
Held: The courts have no authority to make a scheme where the trustees would not be within the jurisdiction of the English courts.
Sir John Romilly MR
(1854) 19 Beav 597, [1854] EngR 837, (1854) 52 ER 482
Commonlii
England and Wales
Cited by:
CitedGaudiya 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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Updated: 24 August 2021; Ref: scu.200673 br>

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