Pierce v. Brown University’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1930
most recently cited
1 state decisions
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“Provided, however, and this deed is upon this express condition, that said Brown University and its successors shall forever hold said tract of land and devote the same exclusively to academic and scientific purposes, including the erection and maintenance on said premises of dwelling houses for the use of the professors, officers, and servants of said Brown University, if said University shall so desire, and to the establishment and maintenance thereon of a botanical garden, which shall bear the name of my late husband, Whiting Metcalf, and that upon the breach of this condition at any time hereafter by said Brown University or its successors this deed shall become null and void, and the estate hereby granted shall be forfeited and shall thereupon revert to, and be vested in, the grantor, her heirs and assigns.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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