The English court declined the jurisdiction for the distribution of a fund of 3,500 pounds 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.
Lord Hardwicke
(1754) Amb 236, [1737] EngR 53, (1737-1784) Amb 236, (1737) 27 ER 157 (A)
Commonlii
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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Updated: 24 August 2021; Ref: scu.200667
