AGUDAS CHASIDEI CHABAD OF UNITED STATES v. Gourary

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• noting that “[wjhile each of the Rebbes appeared] to have treated the library as personal property, ... there can be no question that the library came to be conceived as one to be used for the benefit of the religious community of Chasidim by the leader of the community”
• “The conclusion is inescapable that the library was not held by the Sixth Rebbe at his death as his personal property ....”
• “[T]he library was never held by the Rebbe as personal property for his personal benefit and his private, as opposed to religious, purposes. It was held as personal property for the community’s benefit and for charitable uses.”
• “The treatment of the library at the time of [the Sixth Rebbe’s] death supports the conclusion that the library was no longer considered by him or by those familiar with his thought on the matter as his personal property.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).