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A charitable trust is a Trust established for charitable purposes. Charities may take the form of charitable trusts, companies or unincorporated associations. For a general discussion, see Charities. In general the same rules of trust law apply to charitable and non-charitable trusts. However some special rules apply only to charitable trusts. Details will vary between different jurisdictions. However at common law the most important of these special rules for charities, which continue to apply in most trust law jurisdictions, are as follows: (1) charitable trusts are exempt from the Rule Against Perpetuities , which (in short) would otherwise require a trust to come to an end after a certain period. Charitable trusts may continue indefinately. (2) charitable trusts come under the doctrine of Cy Pres , which holds (in short) that if the charitable purposes of the trust cannot be fulfilled, then they can be replaced by new and more appropriate charitable purposes. |
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