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Collecting society, a friendly society or branch, whether registered or unregistered, which receives contributions by means of collectors at a greater distance than ten miles from the registered office or principal place of business of the Society; see Collecting Societies and Industrial Assurance Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 8), and (English) Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 28)....
Trade Union
Trade Union. The Acts 30 & 31 Vict. cc. 8, 74, provided for facilitating the proceedings of a commission appointed by Queen Victoria to inquire into and report on the organization and rules of trade unions, and other associations of employers and workmen. The (English) Trade Union Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 31), provides:-S. 2. 'The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful, so as to render any member of such trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise.'S. 3. 'The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be unlawful so as to render void or voidable any agreement or trust.'S. 4. 'Nothing in this Act shall enable any court to entertain any legal proceeding instituted with the object of directly enforcing or recovering damages for breach of any of the following agreements, namely,(1) Any agreement between members of a trade union as su...
Registrar, or Registrary
Registrar, or Registrary, an officer whose business is to write and keep a register; as the Registrars of the Chancery Division of the High Court, who draw up the orders of the Court (see (English) R. S. C. Ord. LXII.; Dan. Ch. Pr.; Seton on Judgments); the Registrar of a County Court under s. 1 of the (English) County Courts Act, 1924. See now County Courts Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 53), ss. 16 et seq.: of solicitors, of which the Law Society shall per-form the duties, (English) Solicitors Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 37), s. 1 (see INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY); of friendly societies under the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, and many other statutes. See, e.g., COMPANIES; REGISTRATION OF TITLE....
Industrial assurance
Industrial assurance. See the (English) Industrial Assurance Act, 1923 (repealing the Collecting Societies and Industrial Assurance Companies Act, 1896), which consolidates and amends the law relating to industrial assurance. The Act gives increased protection to the poorer classes of assured persons in respect of life insurance business the premiums upon which are received by collectors at intervals of less than two months. 'Industrial assurance funds' (life funds) cannot be made security for a loan other than a temporary bank overdraft. The Act contains important provisions as to forfeiture and surrender of policies, accounts and inspection, and the printing of portions of the Act on policies so as to draw the attention of policy-holders to rights conferred by the Act. See the (English) Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 28), which permits the issue of endowment policies; and see FRIENDLY SOCIETIES....
Industrial and Provident Societies
Industrial and Provident Societies. The (English) Statutes regulating these societies, 25 & 26Vict. c. 87, 30 & 31 Vict. c. 117, and 34 & 35 Vict. c. 80, were consolidated by the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 45), which by s. 6 provided for the registration of societies 'for carrying on any labour, trade, or handicraft, in-cluding the buying or selling of land, of which no member shall claim an interest in the funds exceeding 200l.'This Act was repealed and re-enacted with amend-ment by the (English) Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 39), which pro-vides for the registration as an industrial and provident society of any society for carrying on any 'industries, businesses, trades specified in or authorized by its rules, whether wholesale or retail, and including dealings of every description with land,' but enacts that no member other than a registered society shall have any interest in the shares exceeding 200l. and contains...
Public - Auditors and valuers
Public - Auditors and valuers, persons appointed by the Treasury for the purpose of audits and valuations under the (English) Friendly Societies Act, 1896, s. 30, and under the (English) Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893, s. 72. Their duties and remuneration are as prescribed from time to time by the Treasury. In the case of the latter class of Society, audit by a public auditor is now compulsory (Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1913, s. 2). See also Industrial Insurance Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 8), s. 15....
Collecting societies
Collecting societies, a registered friendly society which carries on industrial assurance business is known as a collecting societies, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 24, para 205, p. 123...
Benefit society
A society or association formed for mutual insurance as among tradesmen or in labor unions to provide for relief in sickness old age and for the expenses of burial Usually called friendly society in Great Britain...
Benefit Societies
Benefit Societies. See FRIENDLY SOCIETIES....
Quaker
Quaker, the statutory, as well as the popular, name of a member of the religious Society of Friends.The society was founded by George Fox about the middle of the seventeenth century, and gained many adherents owing to the discontent with the existing priestcraft of the day. There is no adherence to any definite or formal creed, and the tenets of the society are chiefly distinguishable from those of other Christian bodies in that the members disclaim any necessity for the outward observance of baptism or partaking of the Sacrament, and further believe that all war in contrary to Christian principles. Men and women alike share in the ministry and government of the religious body.As to affirmations by Quakers instead of oaths, see AFFIRMATION. As to their marriages, see MARRI-AGE....
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