| Description | Photocopies of legal decisions taken in the House of Lords regarding cases of Catholic Interest. File presented to Archbishop John Carmel Heenan by Richard Cave KSG-Principal Clerk of the Judicial Department-House of Lords. Judgements cover the following two cases: Bourne and another v. Keane and others (1919) and Gilmour v. Coats and others (1949). The Bourne case relates to bequests from a personal estate for masses for the dead and the Gilmour case relates to the charitable status [or otherwise] of the Carmelite Priory. |