A problem which is illustrated by two recent cases arises where a testator makes a gift to a charity which does not exist. The error may be the result of misdescription by the testator, or he may have described the charity correctly but not known that it had ceased to exist, or the charity may…
Contents: Volume 1, Issue 3 (1974)
The publication of a spring issue of this little magazine reflects the continuing growth of public interest in Canadian philanthropy. We include the further papers we promised from last year’s colloquium at the Guild Inn, Scarborough. This occasion was a first of its kind; and yet within a year there will be held another symposium…
The Future Of Foundations Edited by: Fritz Heimann Background Papers for the Fortyfirst American Assembly at Arden House, Harriman, New York, November 2-5, 1972. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1973. v & 278 pages including Index.) The American Assembly is a non-partisan educational forum which, since its establishment at Columbia University in 1950, has…
A newscaster has just given me the finest news I’ve heard in years! With Bora Laskin as our new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada I am greatly heartened as I look to the future. The dictum “the law was made for justice” finds fulfilment in this man’s deep humanitarianism. That he is…
Ce bref article entend considerer l’application et les efiets en droit quebecois des dispositions testamentaires etablissant des legataires seulement fiduciaires ou simples ministres pour des fins de bienfaisance. L’article 869 du Code Civil de la Province de Quebec edicte: “Un testateur peut etablir des legataires seulement fiduciaires ou simples ministres pour des fins de bienfaisance…
Excerpts from a paper presented August 28, 1973 at the Taxation/Wills and Trust Section of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Bar Association. The full text published by Richard De Boo Limited, 70 Richmond St. East, Toronto. Introduction Most members of the legal profession are unfamiliar with the particular area of corporation law discussed…
An Address delivered at a Conference on “Foundations in the Seventies” at the Guild Inn in Scarborough, Ontario May 1973. Mary L. Northway, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Neathern Trust, Toronto What I would like to do today is describe an experiment, a sort of pilot study. For about thirty years my research…
I should explain right at the beginning that my professional experience as an agency executive has been almost exclusively in the mental health field. I hesitate therefore to comment on other fields because the health field is becoming increasingly specialized. But the mental health field, I suggest, is unique in this respect: it is one…
John Hodgson suggested in that pleasant way he has that the task he had given me today would be very simple and that I would not have to prepare for it at all. The fact that I did not have to prepare was true and that part I liked. But as the discussion today revolved…