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superstitious use
superstitious use n. Law (now Ecclesiastical Law) (a) a use of money, as a bequest or trust, considered to be inimical to the Established Church or the state religion, originally a disposition of property for purportedly religious purposes not tolerated by the law; (b) the using of money for such a purpose.
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1604 in E. Coke Q. Parl. Rep. f. 106v Intant que le statute [viz. 1 Edw. VI, c. 14] per expres parols abrogate & tolle touts tiels supersticious vses queux fuerent dauer continuance a touts iours.]
a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 52 The statute of Chantries that willeth all lands to be forfeited, giuen or imploied to a superstitious vse.
1715 Act 1 Geo. I Stat. 2. c. 50 (heading) To enquire of the Estates..of Popish Recusants, and of Estates given to superstitious Uses.
1762 M. Foster Rep. Proc. Comm. Oyer & Terminer ii. i. 265 This forfeiture, which is not now applied to superstitious use, is still part of the revenue of the Crown.
1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 13 Superstitious uses..are declared..to be where lands, tenements, or goods, are given for the maintenance of persons to pray for the souls of dead men in purgatory, or to maintain perpetual obits, lamps, &c.
1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon at Charities The history of the law of charities prior to the 43rd Eliz. c. 4, which is emphatically called the Statute of Charitable Uses, is extremely obscure... It is clear that no superstitious uses are within the purview of the statute.
1919 Times 4 June 4/2 The conclusion, therefore..was that a gift for masses of the souls of the dead ceased to be impressed with the stamp of superstitious use when Roman Catholicism was again permitted to be openly professed in this country and that thenceforth it could not be deemed illegal.
1946 Times 23 Dec. 7/4 Among notable cases in which Russell was briefed as counsel was Bourne v. Keane (1919), in which the House of Lords accepted his argument that a bequest for Masses for the dead is not void as a gift to superstitious uses.
2009 L. M. Friedman Dead Hands viii. 154 In a 1754 case, a Jewish testator left money to found a Yeshiva where students could study Rabbinic law. The chancellor held that such a gift was void. It was a gift for a ‘superstitious use’.
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