[96] Blackstone, Introd., Sec. 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.