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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Identifikator:: 875232663

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-2698

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Title:: 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

Place of publication:: with the acts, observations thereon, forms of rules etc., reports of leading cases at length, and a copious index$gTenth edition, revised and enlarged

Publisher:: Shaw and Sons

Year of publication:: 1881

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 303 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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o INTRODUCTION. the Industrial and Provident Societies Act; 1876 with notes and forms, is entirely new. 2. Before proceeding to state the effect of the present Friendly Societies Acts, it may he useful briefly to trace the course of past legislation with respect to such associations. The first Act “For the Encouragement and Relief of Friendly Societies” (33 Geo. 3, c. 54), passed on the 21st June, 1793, defined them to be “ societies for raising, by voluntary subscrip tions of the members, separate funds for their mutual relief and maintenance in sickness, old age, and infirmity/’ The preamble affirmed that the protection and encouragement of such societies would be likely to be attended with very beneficial effects, by promoting the happiness of indivi duals and at the same time diminishing the public burthens (a). The enacting part of this statute designates the objects it proposed to encourage as “ societies of good fellowship,” and authorized them to make proper and wholesome rules, orders, and regula tions, so as not to be repugnant to the laws of the realm, nor to any of the express provisions of the Act. That it might be ascertained whether such rules were conformable to the Act, they were to be exhibited in writing to the justices in (a) It is interesting to see the usefulness of Friendly Societies in diminishing the public burthens placed so pro minently forward from the very first. A recent writer has boon so much impressed with this that he has eloquently advocated the establishment of a National Friendly Society, to which every one should be compelled to subscribe.

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