The Law Relating to Choses in Action; with Special Reference to the Judicature Act, 1873, and Assignability at Law and in Equity: Together with the Pr

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...who appears to the majority of the trustees, upon such evidence as they may deem satisfactory, to be entitled by law to receive the same " (q). () 37 & 38 Vict. c. 42, s. 33. Act, the nomination might be in (o) See Building Societies Act, favour of an officer, &c. of the 1894, s.8; and Companies (Wind-society, if such nominee were a ing-up) Act, 1890, s. 10. relative of the nominator (39&40 (p) 38 & 39 Vict. c. 60, s. 15, Vict. o. 32, s. 10). sub-s. (3); but by an amending (y) Id. s. 15, sub-s. (4). "Whenever the society, after the decease of any member, pays any sum of money to the person who appears to the trustees to be entitled under this section, the payment is valid and effectual against any demand made upon the trustees or the society by any other person " (r). The same Act (and section) provides for the transfer of stock, in the event of the absence, bankruptcy, &c., &c., of any of the trustees, into the names of any other persons as trustees for the society (s). By an amending Act, the amount of the nomination sum was extended from 50/. to 100/. (t); and it was enacted that the nomination might be partly priuted, and if made in a book kept at the office shall bo taken to be delivered at such office (); and "moneys payable by the society at the death of such member" were made to include deposits and moneys accumulated for his use, together with interest on such deposits, &c., if any. But all the enactments regulating friendly societies were repealed, and the whole law thereupon consolidated by the Friendly Societies Act, 1896. By that Act--A member of a registered society, not under sixteen years of age, may dispose of any sum of money payable by the society to him at...