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CLUB

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A voluntary, unincorporated association of persons for purposes of a social, literary, or political nature, or the like. A club is not a partnership. 2 Mees. & W. 172. The word “club” has no very definite meaning. Clubs are formed for all sorts of purposes, and there is no uniformity in their constitutions and rules. It is well known that clubs exist which limit the number of the members and select them with great care, which own considerable property in common, and in which the furnishing of food and drink to the members for money is but one of many conveniences which the members enjoy.

Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition

An association of persons. It differs from a partnership in this, that the members of a club have no authority to bind each other further than they are authorized, either expressly or by implication, as each other’s agents in the particular transaction; whereas in trading associations, or common partnerships, one partner may bind his co-partners, as each has a right of property in the whole.

Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition

adj. In practice. Closed or sealed up. A term applied to writs and letters, as distinguished from those that are open or patent Close copies. Copies of legal documents which might be written closely or loosely at pleasure; as distinguished from office copies, which were to contain only a prescribed number of words on each sheet. Close corporation. One in which the directors and officers have the power to fill vacancies in their own number, without allowing to the general body of stockholders any choice or vote in their election. McKim v. Odom, 3 Bland (Md.) 416. note. Close rolls. Rolls containing the record of the close writs (literal clausw) and grants of the king, kept with the public records. 2 Bl. Comm. 346. Close season. In game and fish laws, this term means the season of the year In which the taking of particular game or fish is prohibited, or in which all hunting or fishing is forbidden by law. State v. Theriault, 70 Vt. 617, 41 Atl. 1080, 43 L. R. A. 290, 67 Am. St Rep. 695. Close writs. In English law. Certain letters of the king, sealed with his great seal, and directed to particular persons and for particular purposes, which, not being proper for public inspection, are closed up and sealed on the outside, and are thence called “writs close.” 2 Bl. Comm. 346; Sewell, Sheriffs. 372. Writs directed to the sheriff, instead of to the lord. 8 Reeve, Eng. Law, 45.

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