"eleemosynary corporation" meaning in All languages combined

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1822 September, United States Law Journal, volume I, number 2, New Haven, C.T.: Gray & Hewit, →OCLC, page 298",
          "text": "An eleemosynary corporation is one that is constituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms or bounty of the founder, to such persons as he has directed: as hospitals for the maintenance of the poor, sick and impotent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1911, Lottie E. Jones, History of Vermilion County, Illinois: A Tale of Its Evolution, Settlement, and Progress for Nearly a Century, volume I, Chicago, I.L.: Pioneer Publishing Company, page 318",
          "text": "The longest drawn out, and one of the most interesting litigations arising in this county, was a suit involving the right of an eleemosynary corporation to rent for profit the corporate property, after the corporation had ceased to do business under its charter.",
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          "ref": "2012, Jill E. Martin, Modern Equity, nineteenth edition, London: Sweet & Maxwell, page 496",
          "text": "In the case of eleemosynary corporations, the founder may appoint a visitor. If none is appointed, the founder (or his heirs) is the visitor by operation of law.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A corporation dedicated to charity."
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  "word": "eleemosynary corporation"
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          "ref": "1822 September, United States Law Journal, volume I, number 2, New Haven, C.T.: Gray & Hewit, →OCLC, page 298",
          "text": "An eleemosynary corporation is one that is constituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms or bounty of the founder, to such persons as he has directed: as hospitals for the maintenance of the poor, sick and impotent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1911, Lottie E. Jones, History of Vermilion County, Illinois: A Tale of Its Evolution, Settlement, and Progress for Nearly a Century, volume I, Chicago, I.L.: Pioneer Publishing Company, page 318",
          "text": "The longest drawn out, and one of the most interesting litigations arising in this county, was a suit involving the right of an eleemosynary corporation to rent for profit the corporate property, after the corporation had ceased to do business under its charter.",
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          "ref": "2012, Jill E. Martin, Modern Equity, nineteenth edition, London: Sweet & Maxwell, page 496",
          "text": "In the case of eleemosynary corporations, the founder may appoint a visitor. If none is appointed, the founder (or his heirs) is the visitor by operation of law.",
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        "A corporation dedicated to charity."
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