The dead hand
Subtitle: addresses on the subject of endowments and settlements of property
By: by Sir Arthur Hobhouse
Series: 19th-century legal treatises -- no. 27610-27612; Making of modern law
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1880
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [microform] :
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Endowments; Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations; Charities
Notes: "Mostly reprinted, by permission of the council, from the Transactions of the Social Science Association."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The characteristics of charitable foundations in England.; title: On the authority accorded to founders of endowments.; title: On the disposition of property to public uses.; title: The property of married women.; title: The devolution and transfer of land.; title: The bearing of eleëmosynary endowments on pauperism.; title: The adjustment of charitable endowments to the needs of the times.