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eleemosynary corporation : a private corporation created for charitable and benevolent purposes (Lay corporations – Lay corporations are either civil or eleemosynary. Eleemosynary corporations are such as are constituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms or bounty of the founder of them, to such purpose as he had directed. … of this kind are hospitals and colleges. All other corporations are civil corporations JBSp ● charitable corporation; charitable organization ● pious foundation ● endowment : A gift of money or property to an institution for a specific purpose, esp one in which the principal is kept intact indefinitely and only the income from that principal is used. N.B. Despite the unrelenting adherence of the large majority of bilingual Iranians to endowment as an equivalent for وقف and موقوفه Endowment, as its definition above indicates, has elements that are usually absent in Persian which warrant judicious caution when opting for an English equivalent for Persian, its inclusion here largely serving as a reminder to the more discerning readers and writers.
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