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Re Bucks Constabulary Widows and Orphans Fund Friendly Society (No 2)

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Unless there is a rule to the contrary, past members have no rights in a group’s assets, unless by death or resignation the society is reduced to one member. If so, the one cannot claim to be the association, as one cannot associate with oneself. So the property must be regarded as ownerless, and go
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The Bucks Constabulary Fund Friendly Society was set up to give relief to widows and orphans of deceased members. It was an unincorporated association registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1896. It had no rules for how assets should be distributed if it was wound up. It was disputed whether
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I can see no reason for thinking that this analysis is any different whether the purpose for which the members of the association associate are a social club, a sporting club, to establish a widows’ and orphans’ fund, to obtain a separate parliament for Cornwall, or to further the advance of
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in which dissolution by membership falling below two entitles the surviving member to the remainder of the unincorporated associations assets.
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Walton J held that the present members of the association shared in the surplus property equally.
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Re Bucks Constabulary Widows and Orphans Fund Friendly Society (no 2)
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Re Bucks Constabulary Widows and Orphans Fund Friendly Society (no 2)
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Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992
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The ratio from this case is largely irrelevant following
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Index

English trusts law
beneficiary principle
unincorporated associations
bona vacantia
Hanchett‐Stamford v Attorney‐General
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t
e
The Satanita
Leahy v Attorney‐General for New South Wales
Re Recher’s Will Trusts
Re Lipinski’s Will Trusts
Re Grant’s Will Trusts
Conservative and Unionist Central Office v Burrell
Re West Sussex Constabulary Trusts
Re Bucks Constabulary Society (no 2)
Hanchett-Stamford v Attorney-General
Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965
s 1
Friendly Societies Act 1974
s 54(1)
Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992
ss 12-14
Companies Act 2006
Charities Act 2011
Beneficiary principle
English trusts law
English trusts law
Categories
English trusts case law

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