FRATERNAL

Brotherly; relating or belonging to a fraternity or an association of persons formed for mutual aid and benefit, but not for profi. Fraternal benefit association. A society or voluntary association organized and carried on for the mutual aid and benefit of its members, not for profit; which ordinarily has a lodge system, a ritualistic form of work, and a representative government, makes provision for the payment of death benefits, and (sometimes) for benefits in case of accident sickness, or old age. the funds therefor being derived from dues paid or assessments levied on the members. National Union V. Marlow, 74 Fed. 778, 21 C. C. A. 89; Walker v. Giddings, 103 Mich. 344, 61 N. W. 512. Fraternal insurance. The form of, life (or accident) insurance furnished by a fraternal beneficial association, consisting in the payment to a member, or his heirs in case of death, of a stipulated sum of money, out of funds raised for that purpose by the payment of dues or assessments by all the members of the association.