The Superior Court of New York City January 15, 1866 (Madison Avenue Baptist Church v. Baptist Church)

By the Court.—Monell, J.

The common law right of alienation, as well as the power conferred by the Revised Statutes (2 Rev. Stat., 556, § 1, sub. 4), upon corporations generally, to convey their real property, is restrained in its application to religious corporations, by the 11th section of the act providing for their incorporation (2 R.. L. [1813], 212).