*140.* _Injunction, Mandamus, Sepulture._—An injunction will not be granted to prevent the expulsion of a member contrary to the charter and by-laws of the denomination; but if a member be expelled without warrant of law, he has his remedy by mandamus for reinstatement.(249) A person who has been expelled can not maintain an action for restoration in order to enjoy the right of sepulture, as it is premature.(250) *141.* _Expulsion, Illegal._—The attempt of a minority of a church to expel the majority of the members and turn over the property to another denomination is illegal. However, the same would be true if it were done by the majority.(251) *142.* _Freedom, Faith, Doctrine._—The constitution in declaring the freedom of all men to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, does not give a church member the right to repudiate the faith and doctrine on which the church was founded, and at the same time to insist on his right to exercise and enjoy the benefits and privileges of a member of such church.(252) Every person joining a church, impliedly, if not expressly, agrees to conform to its rules and to submit to its authority and discipline.(253) A person who has been expelled from a religious society can not maintain an action for services rendered the society while he was a member.(254) CHAPTER XII. ELECTIONS *143.* _Time, Place, Void._—Where a religious society that is incorporated holds an election for trustees, which is held at the wrong time or place, the election is void.(255) *144.* _Voting, Communicants, Attendance._—A by-law of a church that prohibited any person whose pew rent was in arrears more than two years from voting at a church meeting, is valid and reasonable.(256) Where a charter of a religious society allowed only members being communicants to vote after they had attained the age of eighteen years, to entitle a member of the congregation to vote it was necessary that he should have taken the sacraments after the age of eighteen years.(257) Where the right to vote was limited to members who contributed not less than ten shillings annually toward the support of the church, those who were challenged for want of complying with the rule can not do so after being challenged and then vote.(258) Stated attendance at divine worship in the church, congregation, or society, and contribution to the support of such church, may be made the tests of the right of a person to be a voter at an election. The attendance of a wife or children of the family is not sufficient to confer the right to vote on the husband or father.(259) *145.* _Voters, Poll List._—Parol evidence is admissible to prove the number of persons entitled to vote in a church society, notwithstanding that there is a register of names of the stated hearers in such church kept by the clerk of the trustees.