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 having repealed 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, pro 
viding 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 allow 
ance 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 “sick 
ness” within the meaning of the society’s rules. 
Case stated by the justices of Northamptonshire under 
20 & 21 Viet. c. 43.