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Superstitious uses

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Various bequests to Jews, Dissenters, and Papists for religious or quasi religious purposes, which in England were made void by several statutes; and the Eng might divert them to such uses as were " truly charitable."