History of the Law of Charity, 1532-1827

Informationen zum Autor Gareth Jones has been writing and broadcasting on Welsh boxing for 45 years! including two decades as Welsh correspondent of the trade magazine! Boxing News. Zusammenfassung This book covers the period from the Reformation to the end of Lord Eldon's Chancellorship when the modern law of charity had taken a definite shape. Mr Jones shows how the contemporary religious! economic and social pressures moulded the substantive law and illustrates the importance of procedural considerations in defining the limits of legal charity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The development of the law of charity 1532-1700: 1. Introduction: Charity before the Reformation; 2. The Reformation and the law of charity; 3. The Statutes of Charitable Uses: 39 Elizabeth I c. 6 and 43 Elizabeth I c. 4; 4. The development of the Law of Charity 1545-1700: A definition of charity; 5. The development of the Law of Charity 1545-1700: The privileges of charity; Part II. The development of the Law of Charity 1700-1827: 6. Introduction; 7. The Mortmain Act, 1736; 8. The preamble to the Charitable Uses Act, 1601, and the definition of charity; 9. The influence of the Mortmain Act, 1736, on the definition of charity; 10. The development of the Law of Charity 1700-1827: The privileges of charity; 11. The Enforcement of Charitable Trusts 1700-1827.

Product details

• Authors: Jones Gareth, Gareth Jones
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2008
• EAN: 9780521073929
• ISBN: 978-0-521-07392-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Studies in English L; Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; England, Wales, LAW / Legal History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Philanthropy & Charity, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Legal History, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, Charity law