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Friendly societies, associations supported by subscription for the relief and maintenance of the members or their wives, children, relations, and nominees, in sickness, infancy, advanced age, widowhood, etc. by the Friendly Societies Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 60), various prior statutes regulating these societies were in whole or in part repealed, and the law consolidated and amended. Such societies may be formed for providing payments on birth of a member's child, or on death of a member, or for relief and maintenance of members and their husbands, wives, children, etc., in old age or sickness, the endowment of members at any age, the insurance of tools against fire, or of cattle, for working men's clubs, or for any other purpose authorized by the Treasury. Before any such society can be properly established, its rules must have been transmitted to and approved of by the central office for the registration of Friendly Societies. The Act was amended in 1876 by 39 & 40 Vict. c. 32 as ...
Friends, society of
Friends, society of. See QUAKER....
Audit
Audit, an examining of accounts. An audit may be either detailed or administrative, and is usually both. A detailed audit is a comparison of vouchers with entries of payment, in order that the party whose accounts are audited may not debit his employer with payments not in fact made. An administrative audit is a comparison of payments with authorities to pay, in order that the party whose accounts are audited may not debit his employer with payments not authorised. If in either branch of audit an improper entry is discovered, the auditor surcharges the party whose accounts are audited; whereby the payment must be made by such party out of his own pocket. Where no fraud is suspected, however, and when there has been no negligence, it is common for the surcharge to be remitted [see, e.g., (English) Local Government Act, 18 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 230], especially where the party whose accounts are audited has given his service gratuitously.The public accounts are audited under the (E...
Building societies
Building societies, associations of persons subscribing to a common fund which is employed in making advances to such members (called 'advanced members') as desire to obtain them on the security of real or leasehold property, while those members who do not desire an advance (called 'investing members' ) simply pay their contributions to the society and receive interest thereon. Building societies are either (a) Unincor-porated, or (b) Incorporated. Unincorporated societies (now few in number) are governed by the (English) Building Societies Act of 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 32), and certain sections of the old (English) Friendly Societies Acts of 1829 and 1835 (repealed for all other purposes) incorporated therewith. Incorporated societies are governed by the (English) Building Societies Acts, 1874 to 1894, and the (English) Building Societies Regulations, 1895, made thereunder. A cross division of these societies is into (1) Terminating, and (2) Permanent. A Terminating Society is one whic...
Society
Society. Associations designated by the name of 'society' include (1) Building Societies, regulated by the (English) Building Societies Acts, as to which see BUILDING SOCIETIES; (2) Friendly Societies, regulated by the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, as to which see FRIENDLYSOCIETIES; (3) Industrial and Provident Societies, regulated principally by the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893, as to whichs see INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES; (4) Loan Societies, regulated by 3 & 4 Vict. c. 110, as to which see LOAN SOCIETIES; (5) Literary and Scientific Societies, regulated by the (English) Literary and Scientific Institutions Act, 1854. And exempted from rates by 6 & 7 Vict. c. 36, as to which see that title; and other benevolent or useful societies, e.g., see (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 18, and (6) Illegal Societies, prohibited by the Unlawful Societies Act, 1799, and the very similar (English) Seditious Meetings Act, 1817, as to which see SEDITIOUS, and Chitty's Statutes,...
Nominatim
Nominatim, by name; expressed one by one.--the act of mentioning by name; especially the power of appointing, by virtue of some manor or otherwise, a clerk to a patron of a benefice, by him to be presented to the ordinary. A nominator must appoint his clerk within six months after avoidance; if he do not, and the patron presents his clerk before the bishop has taken any benefit of the lapse, he is obliged to admit such clerk, Plowd. 529. Also [see (English) Ballot Act, 1872; (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 55; Representation of People (No. 2) Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 35]; and (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), Sched. II., Part I., para. 2 (1) the written proposal of a candidate at a parliamentary or municipal election. A to the power of a member of a friendly society or an industrial or a provident society to dispose by 'nomination' of sums payable on his death, see Friendly Societies Act, 1896, s. 56; Friendly Societies Act, 1908, s. 5; B...
Sedition
Sedition, an offence against the Crown and govern-ment, not capital, and not amounting to treason. It cannot be tried at Quarter Sessions. See the (English) Unlawful Assemblies Act, 1799 (39 Geo. 3, c. 79); the (English) Seditious Meetings Act, 1817 (57 Geo. 3, c. 19), jointly called the '(English) Corresponding Societies Acts,' and much resembl-ing one another. Registered friendly societies are exempted by s. 32 of the (English) Friendly Societies Acts, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 25), if transact-ing no business not relating to the objects of the societies; and the (English) Criminal Libel Act, 1819 (60 Geo. 3 & 1 Geo. 4, c. 8). By the (English) Act of 1817, s. 23, which has no parallel in the Act of 1799, political meetings of more than fifty persons within one mile of Westminster Hall, except for parliamentary election purposes, are declared unlawful on any day on which Parliament is sitting. By s. 25 of the Act of 1817, and s. 2 of the Act of 1799, every society or club, the members of...
Corresponding Societies Acts
Corresponding Societies Acts. (1) The (English) Unlawful Societies Act, 1799 (39 Geo. 3, c. 79), by which certain societies, including the London Corresponding Society, having treasonable objects, and all societies 'of which the names of the members or of any committee should be kept secret from the society at large,' etc., were declared to be unlawful combinations. (2) The (English) Seditious Meetings Act, 1817 (57 Geo. 3, c. 19), which repeated the provisions of the above Act, with amplifications. Friendly societies (see that title) are exempted from the provisions of these Acts by s. 32 of the (English) Friendly Societies Act, 1896, if in the society or branch or at any meeting no business is transacted but that which directly and immediately relates to the objects of the society or branch as declared in the rules thereof....
Loan societies
Loan societies, institutions established by the purpose of advancing money on loan to the industrial classes, and receiving back payment for the same by instalments, with interest. They are exempt from the provisions of the Money Lenders Act, 1900.By the (English) Loan Societies Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 110 (continued by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 19, and made perpetual by 26 & 27 Vict. c. 56), forms of proceeding of a similar nature to those prescribed in the Acts regulating savings banks and friendly societies are requisite to enable loan societies to avail themselves of this Act, and see 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, and 59 & 60 Vict. c.25, s. 2, as to certification of Rules by the Registrar of Friendly Societies.These societies are entitled to issue debentures for money deposited with them (otherwise than by way of gift), and these as well as all other notes and instruments given in pursuance of the Act are exempted from stamp duty. They are also placed on the same footing with savings banks, in the...
Clubs
Clubs, associations to which individuals subscribe for purposes of mutual entertainment and convenience; the affairs of which are generally conducted by a steward or secretary, who acts under the immediate superintendence of a committee. The members of an ordinary club, merely as such, are not liable for anything beyond their subscriptions, Wise v. Perpetual Trustee Co., 1903 AC 139. As to altering the rules of a club, see Thellusson v. Valentia, 1907 (2) Ch 1; and as to the expulsion of a member, see Baird v. Wells, (1890) 44 Ch D 661. Consult Wertheimer on Clubs; Leake on Contracts.As to working men's club, sick clubs, etc., see FRIENDLY SOCIETIES, and especially s. 8 of the (English) Friendly Societies Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 25), and (English) Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 28). Shop clubs are dealt with by the (English) Shop Clubs Act, 1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 21), which prohibits compulsory membership of unregistered Shop Clubs or Thrift F...
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