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27 documents for mortmain statutes

- Vidal v. Philadelphia, 43 U.S. 127, 2 How. 127 (1844)
...Duke, 125; Delford on Mortmain, 43. . The statute 5 Elizabeth, reviving a statut... law of England, and some of the British statutes. The report of the judges made to the legislature ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Mortmain Acts
. Statutes designed to prevent lands from being perpetually p...
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- Mc–Pl
- Harpending v. Minister of Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of City of New York, 41 U.S. 455, 16 Pet. 455 (1842)
..., had been enacted, usually termed the statutes of mortmain, of wills, &c., and which being in for...
- U.S. Supreme Court

- Stanley v. Colt, 72 U.S. 119, 5 Wall. 119 (1866)
... of Christ College was valid under the mortmain acts as in effect a devise to the college. . In M... that this statute not only repealed the statutes of mortmain existing in England before the emigrat...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Runyan v. Lessee of Coster, 39 U.S. 122, 14 Pet. 122 (1840)
...In Pennsylvania, the English mortmain acts are in full force. 3 Bin. 626. 2 Pennsylvania...Even under the statutes of mortmain, a corporation can take, although it c...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- The institutionalization of benevolence in the eighteenth-century social welfare state: the great charity debate in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.
... arguable that, with the The Statute of Mortmain 1736 used as counterpoint, Richardson's novel can ...Like similar mortmain statutes passed in the seventeenth century, it built upon d...
- Journal of Church and State
- Vol. 42 Nbr. 3, June 2000
- Richard Jason Belanger v. The Salvation Army, (11th Cir. 2009)
... provisions of section 655.82, Florida Statutes. The district court granted a motion to dismiss in...1990), declared Florida's mortmain statute, which restricted charitable bequests, unc...
- Federal Circuits
- Society for Propagation of Gospel in Foreign Parts v. New Haven, 21 U.S. 464, 8 Wheat. 464 (1823)
... cannot hold lands in England, under the statutes of mortmain, without a license from the crown, whi...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Craig v. Leslie, 16 U.S. 563, 3 Wheat. 563 (1818)
... invention of uses, in order to evade the statutes of mortmain, and they might be applied in the same...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Wendell v. AmeriTrust Co., N.A., (Ohio 1994)
Probate - Wills - Mortmain statute viable rule of law at time of testator's death - Effect on residuary provisions of testator's will when statute declared unconstitutional * * * .

... trust to be distributed according to the statutes of descent and distribution. . The cause is now be...
- Ohio Supreme Court