Legal case and opinion

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

SA/44/5

Title

Legal case and opinion

Date

22 Jun 1772

Level

Item

Extent & medium

3 pieces

Content Description

Case: whether resolutions made at a meeting of the Society of Artists without being first proposed at a meeting of the Directors, can have the effect of bye laws or be in any manner binding upon the Society; whether the conduct of the President in quitting the chair was not proper and justifiable, as the said resolutions were contrary to the words and spirit of the powers previously mentioned; whether the Fellows who proposed and voted for those resolutions are in any manner punishable; and whether those resolutions may not with propriety be expunged by the Directors from the minutes of the Society. The opinion is that of William Whitaker, Serjeants' Inn.