Das Viehversicherungswesen im Deutschen Reich

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Identifikator:: 834004690

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-83835

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Werner, Eugen

Title:: Das Viehversicherungswesen im Deutschen Reich

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Vollrath

Year of publication:: 1876

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (100 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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38 INTRODUCTION. between it and the Friendly Societies Acts arises from the circumstance that Industrial and Pro vident Societies are incorporated bodies, while Friendly Societies have to act through trustees. It was indeed one of the recommendations of the Friendly Societies Commissioners “that the central office should have power to grant a cer tificate conferring incorporation in such cases as it may deem it advisable ”— and the motive of this recommendation was stated to be [Fourth Report, Art. 890] “to obviate the difficulties which are incident to the trustee system in large societies ”—but that recommendation was not carried into effect by the legislature. A system of optional incorporation might no doubt have given rise to confusion. 73. The Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1876, differs from the Friendly Societies Act also in not extending to societies registered under it the privilege of freedom from stamp duty. In not seeking from the legislature a renewal of this exemption, which Industrial and Provident Societies had enjoyed, in common with Friendly Societies, from the time of their being first cer tified under the “ frugal investment ” clause of the Friendly Societies Act of 1846 (see p. 10, ante), the framers of the measure probably had in view the inexpediency of claiming fiscal privi leges on behalf of societies like the Civil Service Supply Association, Limited, which carries on a business exceeding one million sterling per annum among the wealthier classes, or the Co-operative Wholesale Supply Association, Limited, which

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Object: The law of friendly societies, and industrial and provident societies, with the acts, observations thereon, forms of rules etc., reports of leading cases at length, and a copious index

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