Charitable Trusts ‘on behalf of Freemen’
Following the ‘Great Reform’ and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835, initially the Freemen were stripped of all their powers. Subsequent legislation in recognition of English law preventing the removal of ‘personal property’ allowed the retention of their ‘personal property’, that being title to personal custom of freedom in a restricted form. Charity Trusts were set up to preserve certain assets proven to be owed to the individuals at the time of the reform. Many of these were converted by sales…