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Charity

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

In the broadest sense, all the good affections which men ought to have toward one ancjther, but in a more restricted sense, relief of the needy; a gift or devise to charitable uses or purposes, — a gift, i. e., for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, which may be by promoting their moral, their mental, or their physical well-being, and may extend to the rich as well as to the poor.