Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. Town of New Haven
Supreme Court of the United States
*This case came before the court upon a certificate of a division in opinion of the judges of the Circuit Court for the' district of Vermont. It was an action of ejectment, brought by the plaintiffs against the defendants, in that court.
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*This case came before the court upon a certificate of a division in opinion of the judges of the Circuit Court for the' district of Vermont. It was an action of ejectment, brought by the plaintiffs against the defendants, in that court. The material facts, upon which the question of law arose, were stated in a special verdict, and are as follows : By a charter granted by William III., in the 13th year of his reign, & number of persons, subjects of England, and there residing, were incorporated by the name of “ The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,” in order that a…
1Opinion of the CourtWashington, Justice
That the capacity of the plaintiffs, as a corporation, to hold lands in Vermont, ceased by, and as a consequence of, the revolution : 2d. That the society being, in its politic capacity, a foreign corporation, it is incapable of holding land in Vermont, on the ground of alienage ; and that its rights are not protected by the treaty of peace : 3d. That if they were so protected, still, the effect of the last war between the United States and Great Britain, was to put an end to that treaty, and, consequently, to rights derived under it, unless they had been revived by the treaty of peace, which…
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