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Excerpt from The Revised Reports, Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, From the Year 1785, as Are Still of Practical Utility, 1834-1836, Vol. 40: 3 Knapp, 7 Simons, 1 Adolphus and Ellis, 3 Nevile and Manning, 1 Crompton, Meeson and Roscoe, 5 Tyrwhitt, 6 Carrington and Payne
The proportion of cases ha ving an obvious importance or interest for modern readers increases as the work of the Revised Reports proceeds. A. G. V. Pearson, p. 149, is one of the line of cases shewing how a secular court may have to ascertain, as matter of fact, What the tenets of any tolerated denomination are, and to regulate accordingly the application of charitable funds appropriated to that denomination. This has sometimes - but inaccurately, it is conceived - been said to amount to a quasi establishment of the institutions affected. A. Much stronger case is the reconstitution of the Primitive Wesleyan Methodist Society of Ireland, in 1871, by a public Act (34 35 Vict. C. To which a catechetical exposition of the Society's principles, so far as regards discipline, is annexed by way of schedule. That exposition certam disclaims in terms the position of an independent Church for the Methodist Society: but it would seem that, Whatever may be the proper name of the action taken by the Legislature on this occasion, the position of a Society Which could obtain such an Act cannot be correctly described as one of mere toleration.
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