An Essay on the History and Effects of the Laws of Mortmain: And the Laws Against Testamentary Dispositions for Pious Purposes: Comprising an Account of the Debates in Parliament, and of the Inquiries of Select Committees of the House of Commons, and the Most Interesting Cases which Have Occurred in Courts of Law. With an Appendix, Containing the Reports of the Select Committees, and Digests of the Evidence, Etc., EtcC. Dolman, 1853 - 268 pages |
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... fact alone would indicate ; and it is so equally to Catholics and to Protestants . The modern law of mortmain , as it is popularly but improperly called , is a law against dispositions testament- ary , or to take effect at death , for ...
... fact alone would indicate ; and it is so equally to Catholics and to Protestants . The modern law of mortmain , as it is popularly but improperly called , is a law against dispositions testament- ary , or to take effect at death , for ...
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... facts ; that death - bed charity is Protestant in its cha- racter , and that a law against charity is Protestant in its ... fact , running counter to popular pre- judices and popular impressions upon the question , is , that in Catholic ...
... facts ; that death - bed charity is Protestant in its cha- racter , and that a law against charity is Protestant in its ... fact , running counter to popular pre- judices and popular impressions upon the question , is , that in Catholic ...
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... fact equally opposed to prevalent Protestant prejudices , substantiated by the history of this subject , is that undue influence upon testators to the prejudice of the reasonable claims of relatives ( i . e . of near and needy relations ) ...
... fact equally opposed to prevalent Protestant prejudices , substantiated by the history of this subject , is that undue influence upon testators to the prejudice of the reasonable claims of relatives ( i . e . of near and needy relations ) ...
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... facts so interesting and instructive , has no common claims upon the atten- tion of all who love truth and justice ; and it is sub- mitted that it eminently illustrates the fallacies of popular impressions and prevalent prejudices ...
... facts so interesting and instructive , has no common claims upon the atten- tion of all who love truth and justice ; and it is sub- mitted that it eminently illustrates the fallacies of popular impressions and prevalent prejudices ...
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... facts . The main cause of the popular prejudice is the habit of taking tra- ditionary opinions upon trust . People will rarely take the trouble of examining the grounds of the opinions they have formed . If they would do so , they would ...
... facts . The main cause of the popular prejudice is the habit of taking tra- ditionary opinions upon trust . People will rarely take the trouble of examining the grounds of the opinions they have formed . If they would do so , they would ...
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act of George alienation of land applied benefit bequeathed bishop cardinal Carré Catholic Church Catholic priest Catholic religion Chancery chantries chapel charitable bequests charitable purposes Church of England clergy Committee common corporations court Court of Chancery court of equity Crown death death-bed declared deed devise dispose donor dying ecclesiastical endowments England evidence existed favour feudal George II gift give given grant Gwennap heirs held Henry VIII Holdstock hospitals intended law of mortmain leave legacies Lord Lord Chancellor monasteries monks mortmain laws Mount Melleray object opinion parliament parties passed perpetual personal estate personal property personalty perty pious purposes poor prejudice prevent principle Protestant Protestantism question real property reason Reformation reign religious houses religious purposes Reports respect restrictions Roman Catholic schools secret trusts Sherborne Sir F spiritual statutes of mortmain superstitious take effect testamentary dispositions testator tion undue influence void witnesses
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Page 243 - That it shall be lawful for every person to devise, bequeath, or dispose of, by his will executed in manner hereinafter required, all real estate and all personal estate which he shall be entitled to, either at law or in equity, at the time of his death...
Page 246 - Be it therefore enacted, that every Jesuit, and every member of any other religious order, community, or society of the Church of Rome, bound by monastic or religious vows...
Page 233 - Charta and divers other wholesome laws as prejudicial to and against the common utility ; nevertheless this publick mischief has of late greatly increased by many large and improvident alienations or dispositions made by languishing or dying persons or by other persons to uses called charitable uses to take place after their deaths to the disherison of their lawful heirs.
Page 40 - Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay, Who twice a day their wither'd hands hold up Toward heaven, to pardon blood ; and I have built Two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests Sing still for Richard's soul.
Page 25 - The king to his Justices of the Bench greeting. Where of late it was provided that religious men should not enter into the fees of any without licence and will of the chief lord of whom such fees be holden immediately...
Page 50 - ... lest the gifts, intended to be employed upon purposes grounded upon charity, might in change of times (contrary to the minds of the givers) be confiscated into the king's treasury. For religion being variable, according to the pleasure of succeeding princes, that which at one time is held for orthodox, may at another be accounted superstitious, and then such lands are confiscated, as appears by the Statute of Chantries, 1 Edw.
Page 246 - Jesuits and members of other religious orders, communities, or societies of the Church of Rome, bound by monastic or religious vows...