Excerpt from The Queensland Law Journal Reports, Vol. 9: Cases Decided From 22nd April, 1896, to 22nd March, 1900Building Society Unregistered association - Petition to wind up society under Friendly Societies Act of 1876 (40 We No. 13) Jurisdiction of Court under s. 193 of The Companies Act, 1863 (27 Vic., No. - The B. Building Society was registered under The Friendly Societies Act of 1876, but not under The Building Societies Act of 1886. On the hearing of a petition by a creditor for an order to wind up the society, Held, that the society was an unregistered association with in the meaning Of 8. 193 of The Companies Act, 1863, and that the Court had therefore jurisdiction to make a Winding-up order.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.