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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

This word does not always embrace the idea of absolute perpetuity; ITascall v. Madison University, 8 Barb. (N. Y.) 185; or forever, or lasting forever, or existing forever; Texas & P. R. Co. v. Marshall, 136 U. S. 393, 10 Sup. Ct. 846, 34 L. Ed. 385; Bassett v. Johnson,.

2 N. J. Eq. 155.

Where the citizens of a locality are induced to give large sums of money for the establishment of an educational institution, it means that the place agreed on shall be the site of the institution so long as it shall endure; Hascall v. Madison University, 8 Barb. (N. Y.) 186.