Legal Term Dictionary

Having the character or purpose of a charity, (q. v.) —Charitable institution. One administering a public or private charity; an eleemosynary institution. See People v. Fitch, 16 Misc. Rep. 464, 39 N. Y. Supp. 926; Balch v. Shaw, 174 Mass. 144, 54 N. E. 490: People v. New York Soc. More...

Having the character or purpose of a charity, (q. v.) —Charitable institution. One administering a public or private charity; an eleemosynary institution. See People v. Fitch, 16 Misc. Rep. 464, 39 N. Y. Supp. 926; Balch v. Shaw, 174 Mass. 144, 54 N. E. 490: People v. New York Soc. etc.. 162 N. Y. 429, 56 X. E. 1004: In re Vineland Historical, etc., Soc. 66 N. J. Eq. 291. 56 Atl. 1040.—Charitable nses or purposes. Originally those enumerated in the statute 43 Eliz. c 4, and afterwards those which, by analogy, come within its spirit and purpose. In its present usage, the term is so broad as to include almost everything which tends to promote the physical or moral welfare of men. provided only the distribution of benefits is to be free and not a source of-profit. In respect to gifts and devises, and also in respect to freedom from taxation, charitable uses and purposes may include not only the relief of poverty by alms-giving and the relief of the indigent sick and of homeless persons by means of hospitals and asylums, but also religious instruction and the support of churches, the dissemination of knowledge by means of schools and colleges, libraries, scientific academies, and museums, the special care of children and of risoners and released convicts, the benefit of andicraftsmen, the erection of public buildings, and reclamation of criminals in penitentiaries and reformatories. Hence the word "charitable" in this connection is not to be understood as strictly equivalent to "eleemosynary," but as the synonym of "benevolent" or "philanthropic" Beckwith v. Parish, 69 Ga. 569; Price v. Maxwell. 28 Pa. 23; Webster v. Sughrow, 69 N. H. 380, 45 Atl. 139, 48 L. R. A. 100; Jackson v. Phillips, 14 Allen (Mass.) 539; Harrington v. Pier, 105 Wis. 485, 82 N. W. 345, 50 L. R. A. 307, 76 Am. St Rep. 924; Historical Soc. v. Academy of Science, 94 Mo. 459. 8 S. W. 346; Ould v. Hospital, 95 U. S. 303, 24 L. Ed. 450; Academy v. Taylor. 150 Pa. 565. 25 Atl. 55; Gerke v. Purcell, 25 Ohio St 229; Philadelphia library Co. v. Donohugh, 12 Phila. (Pa.) 284; Stuart v. Easton, 74 Fed. 854, 21 C. C. A. 146; State v. Laramie County, 8 Wyo. 104. 55 Pac 451; Gladding v. Church, 25 R. I. 628, 57 Atl. 860, 65 L. R. A. 225, 105 Am. St Rep. 904. Less...

Subjectively, the sentiment or motive of benevolence and philanthropy; the disposition to relieve the distressed. Objectively, alms-giving; acts of benevolence; relief, assistance, or services accorded to the needy without return. Also gifts for the promotion of philanthropic and humanitarian purposes. Jackson v. Phillips, 14 Allen (Mass.) 556; Vidal v. Girard, More...

Subjectively, the sentiment or motive of benevolence and philanthropy; the disposition to relieve the distressed. Objectively, alms-giving; acts of benevolence; relief, assistance, or services accorded to the needy without return. Also gifts for the promotion of philanthropic and humanitarian purposes. Jackson v. Phillips, 14 Allen (Mass.) 556; Vidal v. Girard, 2 How. 127, 11 L. Ed. 205; Historical Soc. v. Academy of Science, 94 Mo. 459, 8 S. W. 346. The meaning of the word "charity," in its legal sense, is different from the signification which it ordinarily bears. In its legal sense, it includes not only gifts for the benefit of the poor, but endowments for the advancement of earning, or institutions for the encouragement of science and art, and, it is said, for any other useful and public purpose. Gerke v. Purcell, 25 Ohio St. 243. Charity, in its widest sense, denotes all the good affections men ought to bear towards each other; in a restricted and common sense, relief of the poor. Morice v. Bishop of Durham, 9 Ves. 399. Charity, as used in the Massachusetts Sunday law, includes whatever proceeds from a .sense of moral duty or a feeling of kindness and humanity, and is intended wholly for the purpose of the relief or comfort of another, and not for one's own benefit or pleasure. Doyle v. Railroad Co., 118 Mass. 195, 197, 19 Am. Rep. 431. —Foreign charity. One created or endowed in a state or country foreign to that of the domicile of the benefactor. Taylor's Ex'rs v. Trustees of Bryn Maur College. 34 N. J. Eq. 101.—Public charity. In this phrase the word "public" is used, not in the sense that it must be executed openly and in public, but in the sense of being so general and indefinite in its objects as to be deemed of common and public benefit. Each individual immediately enefited may be private, and the charity may be distributed in private and by a private hand. It is public and general in its scope and purpose, and becomes definite and private onlv after the individual objects have been, selected. Saltonstall v. Sanders, 11 Allen (Mass.) 450.—Pure charity. One which is entirely gratuitous, and which dispenses its benefits without any charge or pecuniary return whatever. See In re Keech's Estate (Surr.) 7 N. Y. Supp. 331; In re Lenox's Estate (Surr.) 9 N. Y. Supp. £95; Kentucky Female Orphan School v. Louisville, 100 Ky. 470, 36 S. W. 921, 40 I* R..A. 119. Less...

A quantity consisting of 36 pigs of lead, each pig weighing about 70 pounds.

A quantity consisting of 36 pigs of lead, each pig weighing about 70 pounds. Less...

The word "chart," as used in tbe copyright law, does not include sheets of paper exhibiting tabulated or methodically arranged information. Taylor v. Gllman (C C.) 24 Fed. 632.

The word "chart," as used in tbe copyright law, does not include sheets of paper exhibiting tabulated or methodically arranged information. Taylor v. Gllman (C C.) 24 Fed. 632. Less...

In old English law. A charter or deed; an instrument written and sealed; the formal evidence of conveyances and contracts. Also any signal or token by which an estate was held. The term came to be applied, by way of eminence, to such documents as proceeded from the sovereign, granting More...

In old English law. A charter or deed; an instrument written and sealed; the formal evidence of conveyances and contracts. Also any signal or token by which an estate was held. The term came to be applied, by way of eminence, to such documents as proceeded from the sovereign, granting liberties or privileges, and either where the recipient of the grant was the whole nation, as in the case of Magna Charta, or a public body, or private individual, in which case it corresponded to the modern word "charter." In the civil law. Paper, suitable for the inscription of documents or books; hence, any instrument or writing. See Dig. 32, 52, 6; Nov. 44, 2. —Charta communis. In old English law. A common or mutual charter or deed; one containing mutual covenants, or involving mutuality of obligation; one to which both parties might have occasion to refer, to establish their respective rights. Bract, fols. 33b, 34.— Charta eyrographata. In old English law. A chirographed charter; a charter executed in two parts, and cut through the middle, (acindi-tur per medium,) where the word "cyrograph-am," or "chirographum," was written In large letters. Bract, fol. 34; Fleta, lib. 3, c. 14, f 3.—Charta de foresta. A collection of the laws of the forest, made in the 9th Hen. III. and said to have been originally a part of Magna Charta.—Charta de una parte. A deed-poll.—Charta-partita. (Literally, a deed divided.) A charter-party. 3 Kent, Comm. 201. Charta non est nisi ?catimcntum do- nationia. A deed is nothing else than the vestment of a gift. Co. Litt 36. Less...

The charters (grants) of liberties. These are Magna Charta and Charta de Foresta. Chartarnm super fidcm, mortuia tea-tibus, ad patriam de ncocasitudinc rc-currendum eat. Co. Litt. 36. The witnesses being dead, the truth of charters must of necessity be referred to the country, i. e., a jury.

The charters (grants) of liberties. These are Magna Charta and Charta de Foresta. Chartarnm super fidcm, mortuia tea-tibus, ad patriam de ncocasitudinc rc-currendum eat. Co. Litt. 36. The witnesses being dead, the truth of charters must of necessity be referred to the country, i. e., a jury. Less...

Fr. A chart, or plan, which mariners use at sea.

Fr. A chart, or plan, which mariners use at sea. Less...

Fr. In French marine law. A charter-party.

Fr. In French marine law. A charter-party. Less...

A challenge to a single combat; also an instrument or writing between two states for settling the exchange of prisoners of war.

A challenge to a single combat; also an instrument or writing between two states for settling the exchange of prisoners of war. Less...

v. In mercantile law. To hire or lease a vessel for a voyage. A "chartered" is distinguished from a "seeking" ship. 7 East 24.

v. In mercantile law. To hire or lease a vessel for a voyage. A "chartered" is distinguished from a "seeking" ship. 7 East 24. Less...