In re Sellers M. E. Church

Citations

• 139 Pa. 61
• 21 A. 145
• 1891 Pa. LEXIS 958

Syllabus

<p>[To be reported.]</p> <p>1. A conveyance of land to trustees and their successors in office forever, in trust for a use which is a charity to continue perpetually, will pass a title in fee-simple, notwithstanding the absence from the Seed of any ' words of inheritance.</p> <p>2. Such a conveyance for a charitable use does not create a conditional estate, but a trust for the charitable use, not liable to be defeated by non-user or alienation, in the absence of an express condition to that effect.</p> <p>3. Land conveyed to trustees for the use of the members of a religious denomination as a place of worship forever, may be decreed to be sold freed from the trust, under the act of April 18, 1853, P. L. 503, the purchase money to be invested in other property to be held for the same uses.</p>