eleemosynary corporation
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A corporation dedicated to charity, particularly one established for the perpetual…
A corporation dedicated to charity, particularly one established for the perpetual distribution of the alms or bounty of the founder.
- As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […]
- An eleemosynary corporation is one that is constituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms or bounty of the founder, to such persons as he has directed: as hospitals for the maintenance of the poor, sick and impotent.
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