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  Endowment
An endowment is a property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated for the support of any person, institution, or object, as a student, professorship, school, hospital.
A considerable portion of the foundations thus established in England was squandered or confiscated during the Reformation of Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth, while the remainder, by virtue of the Acts of Uniformity and Supremacy, was transferred to the Anglican Church, which still retains it.
Ecclesiastical endowments in France have undergone many vicissitudes, particularly from the year 1789, when a yearly income of about $14,000,000 was suddenly and unjustly confiscated.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/e/endowment.html   (1031 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Deed
A deed is a legal instrument used to grant a privilege.
Conditions attached to the acceptance of a deed are known as covenants.
In some jurisdictions (especially New Zealand) a deed of endowment is used as an equivalent to a Royal Charter, often used to establish educational or medical institutions.
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  Deed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conditions attached to the acceptance of a deed are known as covenants.
In the United States of America, a pardon of the President was at one time considered to be a deed and thus needed to be accepted by the recipient.
In some jurisdictions (especially New Zealand) a deed of endowment is used as an equivalent to a Royal Charter, often used to establish educational or medical institutions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deed   (481 words)

  
 About - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Endowment was initially organized into three divisions: one to aid in the development of international law and dispute settlement, another to study the causes and impact of war and a third to promote international understanding and cooperation.
For the next two decades, the Endowment conducted research and public education programs on a range of issues, particularly relating to the newly created United Nations and on the future of the postwar international legal system.
This new vision expanded the Carnegie Endowment geographically from Washington, D.C., and Moscow to a new presence in Beijing and offices in Beirut and Brussels.
www.carnegieendowment.org /about/index.cfm?fa=history   (1061 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Endowment
An endowment is a property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated for the support of any person, institution, or object, as a student, professorship, school, hospital.
A considerable portion of the foundations thus established in England was squandered or confiscated during the Reformation of Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth, while the remainder, by virtue of the Acts of Uniformity and Supremacy, was transferred to the Anglican Church, which still retains it.
Ecclesiastical endowments in France have undergone many vicissitudes, particularly from the year 1789, when a yearly income of about $14,000,000 was suddenly and unjustly confiscated.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05421b.htm   (1059 words)

  
 Deed Poll Deeder Zaman Guides, Tutorials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the transfer of real estate, a grant deed conveys ownership from the old owner to the new owner, and includes a warranty that the old owner's claim to the property was valid.
Deed poll A deed poll is a legal and formal contract binding only to a single person.
Deed A deed is a legal instrument used to grant a privilege.
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 Office of the Treasurer Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Deed of four townships to the Trustees of Bowdoin College 10 1796 Feb 25.
Deed of land to Elijah Dix 26 1801 Dec 26.
Deed from Stone and Morse to Elijah P. Pike, Deed from E. Pike to Bowdoin College 166 1838 Aug. Contracts, calculations re: Malacki Bartlett 167 1838-1845.
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 Real Estate Deeds
A quitclaim deed is a term used in property law to describe a document by which a person (the "grantor") disclaims any interest the grantor might have in a piece of real property, and passes that claim to another person (the grantee).
In most common law jurisdictions, a quitclaim deed is not technically considered to be a deed at all and in some jurisdictions a buyer who receives a quitclaim deed may not be considered a bona fide purchaser for value unless the quitclaim deed meets certain requirements.
In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a quitclaim deed is known as a release deed.
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 Endowments of the Astan Quds Razavi || Imam Reza (A.S.) Network
Endowments are one of the best and ever-lasting manifestation of benevolence and charity, the best form of philanthropic service, inheriting permanent values, resolving the difficulties of the society and organizing its affairs on sound basis.
In the endowment deed of Abdul Karim it is mentioned that the income from the endowment should be utilized for buying stationery material for forty orphaned children and providing livlihood for the widowed women.
The endowment deed of Sayyid Mirza Sarraf states that the income from the endowment should be spent to marry the poor Sayyid boys and provide the new dress to the orphaned Sayyid children on the occasion of the Nowruz (Iranian New Year).
www.imamreza.net /eng/imamreza.php?id=1111   (3157 words)

  
 pp14-xx- ManxSoc Vol. XXVIII. Records of St Marks
The amount of this first endowment was £21 7 6 per annum, which, with the school pence, was to form the chaplain's salary.
HUGH COSKAHAN, H.K. Deed of Consecration of the Chapel of Ease of St. Mark's in the Parish of Malew, 1772.
A short abstract of the deeds of these various purchases is here given; also a statement of the subscriptions and dis bursements passing over a series of years.
www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/manxsoc/msvol28/p014.htm   (2157 words)

  
 Alexander von Humboldt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although the original endowment was lost in the German hyperinflation of the 1920s, and again as a result of World War II, the Foundation has been re-endowed by the German government and plays an important role in attracting foreign researchers to work in Germany and enabling German researchers to work abroad for a period.
Von Humboldt's father, who was a major in the Prussian army, belonged to a Pomeranian family of consideration, and was rewarded for his services during the Seven Years' War with the post of royal chamberlain.
To his brother's family he was much attached; and in his later years the somewhat arbitrary sway of an old and faithful servant held him in more than matrimonial bondage.
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 Watermillock Watch
In 1812 a number of local residents drew up a deed of endowment "for the purpose of establishing a charity school in the township of Watermillock", £350 having been raised by subscription and "a further sum of about £90" being already in hand.
It was followed by various deeds of endowment, conveyances, declarations of trust and bequests during the 19th century.
The endowments of the Foundation have been increased since the closure of the school by the investment of £600 accumulated interest, and at the present date bring in a yearly income of £83 16s 8d., with a capital value of some £3,000.
uk.msnusers.com /WatermillockWatch/watermillockschool.msnw   (1474 words)

  
 Symbolism in the Endowment
Since the endowment speaks to us through the conveyance of symbols, Aaron is also a symbol of the endowment itself and all tokens, names, and signs, including the symbolism of creation and any other symbol that points the same way.
In the endowment ceremony, Adam (the patron) is given five laws for him to live by: The Law of Obedience, Law of Sacrifice, Law of the Gospel, Law of Chastity, and Law of Consecration.
In the endowment ritual, there are five laws given to the patron, The Law of Obedience, The Law of Sacrifice, The Law of the Gospel, The Law of Chastity, and the Law of Consecration.
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 Deed - AskTheBrain.com
Deeds of Trust are used in place of Mortgages where foreclosure is easier or faster than conventional mortgages or where local custom is to use them in lieu of mortgages.
Tax deeds with right of redemption are actual deeds to the property which are held until the redemption period expires or are redeemed.
Permanent conservation deeds and endowment funding have been established to assure that the Preserve is protected from further development and maintained forever.
www.askthebrain.com /deed-.html   (354 words)

  
 Deed - Real Estate Articles - Call Spencer Realty of Pensacola FL for Pensacola homes for sale, gulf breeze real ...
This type of deed is most commonly used by court officials or fiduciaries that hold the property by force of law rather than title, such as properties seized for unpaid taxes and sold at sheriff's sale.
A so-called quitclaim deed is (in most states) actually not a deed at all--it is actually an estoppel disclaiming rights of the person signing it to property.
A trust deed transfers title to land to a “trustee,” usually a trust or title company, which holds the land as security for a loan.
www.spencerrealty.com /deed.html   (731 words)

  
 Buy Traded Endowment Policy
If you're thinking of surrendering or trading your with profits endowment policy in because you think you were given bad advice to buy it in the first place, you should complain to the firm which sold you the traded endowment policy.
A TEP (traded endowment policy) is a with-profits endowment that has been sold by the original owners before it comes to the end of its life.
With-profits endowments were sold on the effect of "smoothing"; meaning you'd do a little less well in good years but a lot less badly in bad years.
www.endowmenttrade.co.uk /buy_traded_endowment_policy.htm   (1080 words)

  
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By doing nothing, you would be joining a percentage of other endowment victims who run the risk of losing their home simply because they may not be able to afford to repay the shortfall at the right time, which is the legacy of using an under-performing endowment to repay the mortgage debt.
In addition they claimed the projection figures were unrealistic and the loss of the guarantee which the “full” endowment enjoyed meant that the risk was too high, but they were largely shouted down by the life office providers and financial salesmen who stood to gain from their continued sale.
As a result there has been a barrage of media criticism of endowments and their poor performance, however those within the financial services industry and at the FSA are keen to make the point that complaints which focus primarily on poor performance are not always justified and will therefore be rejected.
www.endowment.net /faq.php   (2736 words)

  
 POETRY - Online Information article about POETRY
When, for instance, a dramatist pays so much attention to the evolution of the plot as Sophocles does, it is inevitable that his characters should be more or less plot-ridden; they have to say and do now and then certain things which they would not say and do but for the exigencies of the plot.
, she doubtless has a scheme somewhere, she does somewhere hide a " hard acorn of thought " of which the poem of the universe is the expanded expression.
It does not follow from this that odes should not be so arranged, but it does follow that the poet's arrangement should justify itself by disclosing an entire metrical scheme in place of the musical scheme to which the Greek choral lyric was evidently subordinated.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /PIG_POL/POETRY.html   (15627 words)

  
 The Endowment by Earl R. Curry
He is deeply concerned, He is exceedingly anxious that the time of endowment should soon come, for He knows that increasingly great waves of perplexity, of disturbance and of trouble shall break upon the shores of time.
The very condensed statements concerning the characteristics of the endowment, standing at the head of the amplification of each of the ten characteristics, came to me under inspiration as I sat in one of the back seats of the Temple during a 1936 Reunion prayer service.
As the pages of the unfolding history of these endowment days shall be written one by one, there shall be recorded on them the repetition of all the exceptional and highly miraculous spiritual blessings of the past.
www.centerplace.org /library/books/theendowment.htm   (15159 words)

  
 deed at financeflugger.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The title deeds of a property unequivocally establish the seller'sownership of the property.
The mission of the Registry of Deeds is to record every deed and other instrument concerning the title to land which lies within the registry...
A deed is a document which is usually executed in a special way, often under seal.
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 Ngai Tahu Land Report
Clarke proposed that œ2000 be paid to the tribe at the signing of the deed, œ2000 be held by the government and the interest paid to certain named people and their descendants, and the remaining œ2000 be invested in land in Murihiku as an education endowment for Rakiura Maori.
The deed was signed at Awarua on 29 May 1864 and transferred to the Crown all of Rakiura and the adjacent islands.
In the Rakiura deed of purchase it was not mentioned as one of the islands to be reserved.
www.knowledge-basket.co.nz /oldwaitangi/text/wai027l/ch02_11.html   (2808 words)

  
 Iran - The Deed For Endowment: Rab’ I-Rashidi
The purpose of this endowment, or waqf, was to ensure that as many of the scientific treatises authored by Rashid al-Din or which fell into his possession, could be copied as protection against destruction.
The document for submission to the Memory of the World Register is the Deed of Endowment of the Rab' i-Rashidi, and details the justification for the complex, the management system, administration and the budget of the endowed properties, which included land in present-day Afghanistan, Asia Minor, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq and Syria.
Moreover the institution of the waqf, or endowment, is a central pillar of Islamic society, and this Deed therefore provides an important record of political and economic administration in Central Asia at a time of great dynamism and change.
portal.unesco.org /ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21805&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html   (565 words)

  
 Deed of trust Deed, more information about Deed
In the transfer of real estate, a grant deed conveys ownership from the old owner to the new owner, and includes a warranty that the old owner's claim to the property was valid.
With a quitclaim deed the old owner forsakes his or her claim of ownership in favor of the new owner, but it does not contain any warranty that the old owner's claim was actually valid.
While a grant deed is normally used for all real estate sales and transfers, quitclaim deeds are sometimes used for transfers between family members, gifts, and other special or unusual circumstances.
www.deed-of-trust.us /Deed.html   (421 words)

  
 Country Information: Israel
Endowments (under the Trust Law, 1979) - An endowment is a type of trust in which the assets are set aside to benefit a specific public community or accomplish a particular public aim.
Endowments are either "public" or "religious"—the former are required to promote public purposes, and the latter are required to promote religious purposes.
As such, a beneficiary of a trust is not permitted to act as trustee, unless the deed of endowment specifies otherwise.
www.usig.org /countryinfo/israel.asp   (3323 words)

  
 Ngai Tahu Land Report
There appears to be very little doubt that if the terms of the Deed are strictly adhered to, and the amount invested in land, that there is every chance of its laying dormant for years, or at the best produce but a very limited amount.
By the terms of purchase œ2,000 were to be invested in purchase of land in the Province of Southland, as an endowment for educational and other purposes for the benefit of the vendors.
The sum realised from the endowment was too small to pay all the running costs of the Ruapuke school and in 1868 the school committee decided that it would have to get contributions from the kaika so the teacher could be paid an adequate salary.
www.knowledge-basket.co.nz /oldwaitangi/text/wai027l/ch15_04.html   (1847 words)

  
 Report of Endowment Launch
Concurrent to deliberations regarding the launch of an endowment appeal, CDD was also undertaking strategic planning, management review and market research with a view to purchasing its own premises.
The launch of CDD’s endowment fund campaign took place on the 30th of November 2002 and prior to this, there were a number of pre-launch activities serving as a forerunner to the launch.
If the CDD team lacked confidence in making an appeal for an endowment fund or was unsure about how successful it would be, the ‘friends of CDD reception in Washington’ relieved our fears and our anxiety and increased our confidence to face the task ahead of us.
www.cdd.org.uk /endowment/launch_report.htm   (1986 words)

  
 The Harvard Guide: Harvard's Endowment Funds
Harvard University's endowment, valued at $25.9 billion at the end of FY 2005, is a collection of more than 10,800 separate funds established over the years to provide scholarships; to maintain libraries, museums, and other collections; to support teaching and research activities; and to provide ongoing support for a wide variety of other activities.
Although their specific use varies greatly, all of Harvard's endowment funds have a common objective: to support activities not just for one year, or even one generation, but for perpetuity.
All in all, the endowment has helped to provide the stability necessary for Harvard to remain a premier educational and cultural institution.
www.hno.harvard.edu /guide/finance/index.html   (335 words)

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