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

Document type:: Monograph

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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INTRODUCTION. 7 banks, or with the Commissioners for the Reduc tion of the National Debt, as well as in the public funds and on real security; and provisions were made for the adjustment of the affairs of the society hy justices, in the event of a deficiency in its funds, and for the enforcement of claims of widows and children of deceased members. 10. After ten years’ trial, however, of this system, the law relating to Friendly Societies was reconstructed by an Act passed on the 19th June, 1829 (10 Geo. 4, c. 56), which repealed all the previous statutes. The rules were still to be con firmed by justices and enrolled hy the clerk of the peace, but the only preliminary to such con firmation and enrolment was the certificate of a barrister, appointed for the purpose, that the rules were “ in conformity to law and to the provisions of this Act ” (b). Upon this certificate being obtained, the jus tices were “authorized and required” to allow and confirm the rules, without any discretion as to whether the formation of the proposed society would he useful or beneficial, or any sanction of actuaries or other skilled persons. It was pro vided, however, that the justices were to satisfy themselves that the tables of payments and bene- (6) The barrister so appointed was Mr. John Tidd Pratt, who held the office from 1829 until his death in 1870. During those forty-one years he impressed his personality on the administration of the law in a way that societies have not yet learned to forget. This is not the place to treat of his eminent public services as they deserve, but they ought not to pass unrecorded in the history of Friendly Societies.

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