Bequest to Build Chapel Void Under Mortmain Rules
The court held that a gift intended for building a chapel or charity is void unless the will clearly points to land already in mortmain. Absent explicit language, the presumption favors land purchase. The onus is on claimants to prove the testator’s intention to avoid land purchase, and the fund reverts to the next of kin with costs awarded from the fund.
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Mortmain
Waning of a forty year ministry at the Weigh House
A large congregation at King's Weigh House Chapel marks the retirement of Rev. T. Binney after forty years of pastoral service. He reviews religious movements and changes over the period, noting shifts from Anglican establishment to rising Catholic and Free Church influences, and hints at ongoing honorary ties with his former parish.
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King’s Weigh-house
Fish-streethill
T. Binney
Binney
England
London
George the Fourth
Australia
Friends
North
General Assembly
Chalmers
Edinburgh
Free Church
St. Paul’s
Westminster Abbey
God’s Assembly of the Saints
Rome
Weigh House
Clifton Down
Bristol
Henry Isaac Roper
Lindsay Alexander
Palestine
Tur Downs Cuhartl
Clapton
T. Vincent Tymms
Accrington
Poultry Chapel
Joseph Parker
Manchester
Spence
Ness
Spurgeon
Metropolitan Tabernacle
Melbourne
Victoria Park
C. H. Spurgeon
Blee TcuincLey
Bletchingley
Surrey
W. P. Dothie
Red Hill
Halley
Thomas Jones
Bedford Chapel
Josias Alexander
Saddington, Esq
W. Roberts
J. E. Turner
R. P. Clarke
James Fleming
R. D. Wilson
Hampiepon
M. Henry le Pla
Congregational
Pheasant’s Hill
Hambledon
Bucks
A. W. Johnson
J. Jeffreys
John Macfarlane
Maidenhead
Samuel Eastman
Windsor
James Rowland
William le Pla
Li. D. Bevan
King’s Weigh House Chapel
Martin
Westminster
Sanders
F. Tucker
C. Bailhache
Brock
C. Baruraston
Robert Rew
Batheaston
Bath
Free Church of England
J. Metcalfe White
Tisbury
Tho
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Thomas Binney
Alfred 8. Richardson
Southend