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- n. a charity that is deemed to receive the major part of its support from the public (rather than from a small group of individuals)
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“It was not a charity inasmuch as it was "for the benefit alone of his own soul, and cannot be upheld as a public charity without offending every principle of law by which such charities are supported and it was not valid as a private trust for want of a living beneficiary to support it (Festorazzi v.St. Joseph's R.C. Church of Mobile, 25”
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