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Charity - From: 1200 To: 1799

This page lists 16 cases, and was prepared on 20 May 2019.

 
The Attorney General On The Behalf of Hammond, And The Churchwardens of Somersham v Hobert and Johnson [1676] EngR 528; (1676) Fin H 259; (1676) 23 ER 142 (B)
1676


Charity
Bill to bring trustees of a charity to account
[ Commonlii ]
 
Lydiatt and Others, On The Behalf of The Hospital of Felstead In Essex v Sir John Foach [1700] EngR 53; (1700) 2 Vern 410; (1700) 23 ER 864
5 Feb 1700


Charity, Company
A Corporation for a charity, are but trustees for the charity, and may improve, but cannot do any thing to the prejudice of the charity, or in breach of the rules of the founder.
[ Commonlii ]
 
The Magistrates and Town Council of Perth v Messrs Thomas Black, William Stewart, and William Wilson, Ministers of Perth; George Fauhney and George Robertson, Hospital Masters of Perth; Mr Robert Lyon, Moderator of The Presbytery of Perth [1730] UKHL 1 - Paton - 39; (1730) 1 Paton 39
6 Mar 1730
HL

Charity
Title to Pursue - A presbytery may pursue in the name of a kirk-session within their bounds, upon a grant made to that kirk-session for charitable uses.
Prescription - Possession during forty years without a title not sufficient, in order to plead the negative prescription.
[ Bailii ]
 
Provost of Edinburgh v Aubery (1754) Amb 236
1754

Lord Hardwicke
Charity, Jurisdiction
The English court declined the jurisdiction for the distribution of a fund of £3,500 bequeathed by the testator to the Provost of Edinburgh to be applied for the maintenance of poor labourers residing in Edinburgh and towns adjacent. He said that that belonged "to another jurisdiction, that is, to some of the courts in Scotland". He ordered the fund to be transferred to such person as the Provost of Edinburgh should appoint.
1 Citers


 
Moggridge v Thackwell And Others [1778] EngR 40; (1778-1794) 3 Bro CC 517; (1778) 29 ER 677
1778


Charity

[ Commonlii ]
 
Attorney-General v The Painter-Stainers Company [1788] EngR 210; (1788) 2 Cox 51; (1788) 30 ER 24 (B)
31 Oct 1788


Wills and Probate, Charity
On further directions - Where an intention appears in a testator to give the whole of a fund to a charity, the objects whereof are not sufficient to exhaust the whole, the Court will apply the residue as nearly to the testator's designation as it can. But such defects will not be supplied without some such intention appearing to guide the Court, which cannot go so far as to dispose of a fund merely on seeing a general intention in the testator to die testate as to the whole
[ Commonlii ]

 
 Morice v The Bishop of Durham; 1789 - [1789] EngR 1592; (1789-1817) 2 Ves Jun Supp 248; (1789) 34 ER 1079 (B)
 
Moggridge v Thackwell [1789] EngR 1570; (1789-1817) 2 Ves Jun Supp 348; (1789) 34 ER 1127 (A)
1789


Charity

[ Commonlii ]
 
Moggridge v Thackwell [1789] EngR 1571; (1789-1817) 1 Ves Jun Supp 186; (1789) 34 ER 745 (B)
1789


Charity

[ Commonlii ]

 
 Morice v The Bishop of Durham; 1789 - [1789] EngR 1591; (1789-1817) 2 Ves Jun Supp 239; (1789) 34 ER 1075 (B)

 
 Morice v The Bishop of Durham; 1789 - [1789] EngR 1593; (1789-1817) 2 Ves Jun Supp 177; (1789) 34 ER 1046 (F)
 
Attorney General v Buller [1789] EngR 93; (1789-1817) 1 Ves Jun Supp 513; (1789) 34 ER 898 (J)
1789


Wills and Probate, Charity
Unless the context of a will evince a different intent, trust estates will pass under a general devise.
[ Commonlii ]
 
Moggridge v Thackwell [1789] EngR 1572; (1789-1817) 2 Ves Jun Supp 6; (1789) 34 ER 973 (A)
1789


Charity

[ Commonlii ]

 
 Attorney-General v City of London; 1790 - (1790) Bro CC 171
 
Moggridge v Thackwell [1792] EngR 3015; (1792) 1 Ves Jun 464; (1792) 30 ER 440
8 May 1792


Charity

[ Commonlii ]
 
Thellusson v Woodford (1799) 4 Ves 227
1799


Charity
A gift over to the Crown was held to be impressed with a charitable trust for the relief of the national debt and so charitable.
1 Citers


 
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