SOCIETIES UNDER THE ACT OF 1874; SOCIETIES UNDER THE ACT OF AND SOCIETIES NOT REGISTERED; WITH MODEL RULES, A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION, A COPIOUS INDEX. BY ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Barrister-at-Law; Author of "The Practical Treatise on Building Societies ;" AND EDWARD WILLIAM BRABROOK, LONDON: SHAW & SONS, FETTER LANE & CRANE COURT, NOTICE. THE present work is founded on the law as determined by 37 & 38 Vict. c. 42 (1874), for the carrying through of which beneficial Act Building Societies are indebted to the statesman-like efforts and support of the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole and Mr. W. M. Torrens, M.P., and to the unremitting exertions of Mr. J. Higham and the other members of the Building Societies Protection Committee. In the passing of the Act through the House of Lords, an amendment was made, the effect of which is to apply to societies certified under the Act of 1836 (but not incorporated under the new Act), not only the sections given at length in Part II. of this work, but also those in Part I; new societies, and societies incorporated under the new Act, being subject to Part I. only. Our expressed opinion on this point has recently been confirmed by that formally given by the law officers of the Crown, Sir R. Baggallay, Q.C., and Sir J. Holker, Q.C. In consequence of this, it has been announced that Her Majesty's Government, understanding |