Held that a direction to trustees, duly appointed, ‘to pay over the balance or residue of my estates to or for behoof of such charitable purposes as I may think proper to name in any writing, however informal, which I may leave, but failing my leaving such writings, then to such charitable institutions or societies which exist for the benefit of women and children requiring aid or assistance of whatever nature, but said institutions and societies to be under the management of Protestants’-the testator having left no such writing-was not void from uncertainty, neither on the ground that no power of selection was expressly conferred on the trustees, nor on the ground that the objects to be benefited were insufficiently pointed out.
Judges:
Lord Chancellor (Buckmaster), Lord Kinnear, Lord Atkinson, and Lord Shaw
Citations:
[1916] UKHL 291, 53 SLR 291
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Jurisdiction:
Scotland
Charity, Wills and Probate, Trusts
Updated: 11 July 2022; Ref: scu.630674
