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APPENDIX OP CASES. 
If the Intestate die, His personal Representatives 
leaving take as follows:— 
Brother or sister, and chil- Half to brother or sister per 
dren of a deceased brother head, half to children of 
or sister. deceased brother or sister 
by families. 
Grandfather and brother , All to brother. 
A study of the contents of this table may afford to mem 
bers of Friendly and Industrial Societies good reason why 
they should exercise the privilege of nomination, which has 
been extended to them, and is now so completely un 
restrained that the member may nominate any person what 
ever, whether related to him or not, with the restriction 
only that the nominee, if a stranger in blood, is not to be 
an officer or servant of the society. 
F. 
Note to sect. 15, sub-sect. 7 op the Friendly Societies/. 
Act, 1875. 
Preference is given to a society on the bankruptcy or 
insolvency of an officer having in his possession by virtue 
of his office any money or property belonging to the society, 
as well as on the death of such officer. This is a provision 
well characterized by Lord FjLdon {Ex parte Ross, 6 Ves. 802)- 
as “ very liberal, and perhaps more liberal than just, that 
all creditors, however meritorious, shall be sacrificed to the 
demand of a friendly society.” It was believed that the 
provision of the Bankruptcy Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Viet. c. 71, 
s. 32) by which all debts provable under a bankruptcy are 
to be paid pari passu, except rates and taxes, and the wages- 
of clerks and servants, had operated to repeal the priority 
of friendly societies given by former statutes, though on 
this point county court judges had given conflicting deci 
sions {Re Matthews, Ex parte the Society of Women, held at 
the Blacksmith’s Arms, Mynnddislwyn ; County Courts- 
Chronicle, 1st May, 1872 ; Re Keywortli, Ex parte the Society 
of Good Samaritans, Lincoln, Law Times, 24th August,. 
1872). The statute now expressly restores it. 
Under the old statutes, the following decisions have 
been given, and appear still to be applicable :— 
The circumstance of the society not having audited the 
treasurer’s accounts, was held not to deprive it of the