FRATERNAL

Brotherly; relating or belonging to a fraternity or an a ociation of persons formed for mutual aid and benefit, but not for profit. -FrateTD.al benefit a ociation. A society or voluntary a ociation organized and carried on for the mutual aid and benefit of its mem• bers, 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, sickne , or old age, the funds therefor being derived from dues paid or a e ments,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 insnranoe. The form of life (or accident) insurance furnished by a fraternal beneficial a ociation, 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 parpose by the payment of dues or a e ments by all the members of the a ociation. [s. 527]