2.4.3 Reversal or abrogation of decision

Whenever the Grand Lodge shall reverse or abrogate the decision of a subordinate lodge, or of the Commissioners of Trials, suspending or expelling a brother, and shall restore him to the benefits and privileges of Masonry, without ordering a new trial, he shall not thereby be restored to membership in the lodge from which he was suspended or expelled, without its unanimous consent.

See Decision No. 23.

Related Decisions

No. 23. Trials And Member-Lodge Relationship

Decision: That the action of the Grand Lodge granting a new trial leaves a brother's relationship to his lodge as it was previous to his trial by the lodge.

General Regulations, Article IV, Sec. 2.4.3. May 17, 1847. (Van Slyck, GM)