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- Title: Willis v. Davis
- Author : Court Of Appeals Of Kentucky
- Release Date : January 01, 1959
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 45 KB
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STANLEY, Commissioner. This legal controversy among members of the Eastern Star Baptist Church of Louisville is unusual in that it relates to an incorporated body and to a religious congregation or association of the same name. The corporation was organized in 1938 under KRS 273.020 et seq., to own and maintain property and to promote the Christian religion according to the doctrine and policy of the Baptist church. The charter provides for the conduct of its affairs by a majority vote of the members of the congregation through seven trustees to be elected annually by the membership. The charter states that there shall be a monthly meeting of the members of the congregation and special meetings upon ten days' notice from the pulpit of the church. Such a corporation is civil in nature and is an entity distinguishable from an ecclesiastical society or association, the one having jurisdiction over the temporal or secular and the other over ecclesiastical or spiritual affairs. 76 C.J.S. Religious Corporations §§ 9, 16; 45 Am.Jur., Religious Societies, §§ 8, 48. See Note, 8 A.L.R. 130, Effect of incorporation of an independent religious society.
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