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ever required or authorized by or in pursuance of this Act
or the rules of any society,” are even larger than the corresponding
words in the earlier Act, and are sufficiently
wide to include this ease. But I agree with my lord and
my brother Martin that we must read this language with
reference to the preceding words, and that such documents
as they have described will satisfy the meaning of the Act-Judgment
for the Crown.
The arrangement of sub-section 2 of section 15 of the
Friendly Societies Act, 1875, would seem to make the
matter even less open to doubt; for there the general words
“ or other document, &e.,” aye attached to sub-liead (d),
which relates to “draft, or order, or form of policy, or
appointment, or revocation of appointment of agent,” which
are all matters connected with the transaction of the
internal business of a society.
Note to sect. 15 (4) of the Friendly Societies Act,
1875, and sect. 11 (6) of the Industrial and Provident
Societies Act, 1876.
TABLE OF DISTBIBUTION.
In default of nomination by a member, a society may pay
any sum not exceeding fifty pounds on his death intestate,
“ without letters of administration, to the person who
appears to a majority of the trustees [or in an Industrial
and Provident Society, the Committee of Management] upon
such evidence as they may deem satisfactory, to he entitled
by law to receive the same.” The following is a table of
distribution of personal estate of intestates pursuant to
22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10 ; 29 Car. 2, c. 30
If the Intestate die, His personal Representatives
leaving. take as follows:—
Wife and child, or children . One-third to wife, rest to child
or children; and if children
are dead, then to their
representatives (that is, their
lineal descendants), except
such child or children not
heirs-at-law, who had estate
by settlement of intestate,
in his lifetime, equal to
other shares.
