... order to discuss the implications of charity law on the bequests in the will of Caesar, it is first necessary to analyse the difference between charitable and non-charitable purpose trusts. The principal distinction between the two types of trusts is that the former are valid and the majority of the latter are void. As a general rule, 'non-charitable purpose trusts are void however outward-looking and beneficial the purposes might be'1 and the courts tend to treat them with considerable reserve: "The objection [to non-charitable purpose trusts] is not that the trust is for a purpose or an object per se, but that there is no beneficiary or cestui que trust."2 In other words, 'a trustee must be subject to the supervision of a human beneficiary with a legal interest in performance of that duty.'3 However, there are a limited number of "troublesome, anomalous and aberrant"4 cases in which purpose trusts ...

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