The Principles of Masonic Law: A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of FreemasonryMackey, Albert Gallatin
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The Principles of Masonic Law: A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry
Mackey, Albert Gallatin
Freemasons -- Legal status, laws, etc.
[91] See Mackey's Lexicon of Freemasonry, _in voce_.
[92] Constitutions, Second Edition of 1738, p. 154.
[93] Proceedings for 1853.
[94] Proceedings for 1847.
[95] The right to visit is restricted to once, by many Grand Lodges to
enable him to become acquainted with the character of the lodge before he
applies for membership.
[96] Blackstone, Introd., § i.
[97] For so we should interpret the word "honeste."
[98] I have treated this subject of expulsion so fully in my "Lexicon of
Freemasonry," and find so little more to say on the subject, that I have
not at all varied from the course of argument, and very little from the
phraseology of the article in that work.
[99] In England, ejection from a membership by a subordinate lodge is
called "exclusion," and it does not deprive the party of his general
rights as a member of the fraternity.
[100] Lexicon of Freemasonry.
[101] Phillips, on Evidence, p. 3.
[102] Chief Baron Gilbert.
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