 | Amherst Daniel Tyssen - Charity laws and legislation - 1888 - 658 pages
...wholesome Laws, as prejudicial to and against the common Utility, nevertheless this public Mischief has of late greatly increased, by many large and improvident...their Deaths, to the Disherison of their lawful Heirs : For Remedy whereof be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton, John Mounteney Lely - Law - 1889 - 800 pages
...greatly increased by many large and improvident dispositions, made by languishing or dying persons to charitable uses, to take place after their deaths to the disherison of their lawful heirs, enacted that no lands or other hereditaments whatsoever, nor money, or personal estate to be laid out... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1847 - 768 pages
...wholesome laws, as prejudicial to, and against the common utility ; nevertheless this public mischief has of late greatly increased by many large and improvident...deaths, to the disherison of their lawful heirs." The Act of the 9th George II. then had a double object- — >to prevent the disposition of land in a manner... | |
 | Leonard Syer Bristowe - Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations - 1891 - 146 pages
...wholesome laws as prejudicial to and against the common utility ; nevertheless this public mischief has of late greatly increased by many large and improvident...deaths, to the disherison of their lawful heirs." Lord Hardwicke, who, as Lord Chief Justice, was one of the promoters of the Act, and as Lord Chancellor... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - Conflict of laws - 1901 - 582 pages
...restrain the mischiefs of gifts in mortmain. Then it proceeds : "Nevertheless this publick mischief has of late greatly increased by many large and improvident...charitable uses, to take place after their deaths, to the disherision of their lawful heirs ; for remedy whereof be it enacted." This, then, was the mischief... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - Conflict of laws - 1901 - 584 pages
...restrain the mischiefs of gifts in mortmain. Then it proceeds : " Nevertheless this publick mischief has of late greatly increased by many large and improvident alienations or dispositions made bv languishing or dying persons, or by other persons, to uses called charitable uses, to take place... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - Conflict of laws - 1907 - 840 pages
...restrain the mischiefs of gifts in mortmain. Then it proceeds : " Nevertheless this publick mischief has of late greatly increased by many large and improvident...charitable uses, to take place after their deaths, to the disherision of their lawful heirs ; for remedy whereof be it enacted." This, then, was the mischief... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1014 pages
...prejudicial to the common utility; and then it proceeds, that nevertheless this public mischief has greatly increased by many large and improvident alienations...languishing or dying persons, or by other persons to use.* called (charitable) to take place after their deaths, to the disherison of their lawful heirs.... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 768 pages
...Act," is of a very different nature. One of its purposes, as declared in the preamble, is to avoid " improvident alienations or dispositions made by languishing...deaths, to the disherison of their lawful heirs." Considered in reference to its purposes, it is not properly called a mortmain act. It applies only... | |
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... 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 ; for remedy whereof it was enacted. 
