APPENDIX.

I.  NOTES  OE  CASES,  &c.

The  Acts  set  forth  in  Parts  I.  and  III.  having  repealed
the  previous  statutes,  it  is  thought  convenient  to  state  here,
under  suitable  heads,  the  principal  cases  decided  under
those  statutes,  and  their  application  to  the  new  Acts—

A.
Note  to  Section  8  of  the  Friendly  Societies
Act,  1875.
By  this  section  friendly  societies  may  he  registered,  providing ­
  for  relief  “during  sickness  or  other  infirmity,  whether
bodily  or  mental.”  It  will  still  be  open  to  societies,  if  they
think  fit,  to  restrain  the  payment  of  sick  pay  to  cases  not
involving  mental  infirmity,  but  that  must  be  done  by
express  provision  in  a  rule.  Where  nothing  is  said  to  the
contrary  in  the  rules,  a  society  is  liable  to  pay  sick  allowance ­
  in  cases  of  insanity.  This  is  shown  by  the  following
case,  determined  under  18  &  19  Yict.  c.  63  :—
Burton,  app.,  Eyden,  resp.
Friendly  Society—“  Sickness”—Insanity.
[Law  Eep.  8  Q.  B.  295.]
By  the  rules  of  a  friendly  society,  after  payment  of  a
year’s  subscription,  any  member  sliali  receive  8s.  per  week
during  any  sickness  or  accident  that  may  befall  him,  unless
by  rioting  or  drunkenness:—Held,  that  insanity  was  “sickness” ­
  within  the  meaning  of  the  society’s  rules.
Case  stated  by  the  justices  of  Northamptonshire  under
20  &  21  Viet.  c.  43.