TERMS OF USE

I.Acceptance

By visiting these pages or submitting an application, a visitor accepts these terms as written. Where a visitor does not accept them, the appropriate course is to leave the site.

II.Membership and Application

An application is an invitation to be considered and confers no right of admission. The Court may decline any application at its discretion and is under no obligation to give reasons. Before offering a place, the Court may look into an applicant’s name, take references, and consult public records, and an applicant is told when that is being done. What is learned is used for the decision and not kept afterward.

III.Standing and Withdrawal

1. 1

   A membership is a revocable licence to attend the Court’s engagements. It is personal to the member, is not transferable, confers no ownership or interest in the Court or its property, and carries no vote in its affairs.

2. 2

   The Court may withdraw a membership where a member has broken the Code, has brought the Court or its members into disrepute, has given false particulars in an application, has failed to pay a sum owed, or has conducted themselves in a manner the Committee judges incompatible with the company of the Court.

3. 3

   Before a membership is withdrawn the member is written to, told what is at issue, and given fourteen days to reply. The Committee considers the reply and decides. The decision is final, and no appeal lies from it.

4. 4

   Where conduct is such that the Court cannot wait, a membership may be suspended while the matter is considered.

5. 5

   A member may resign at any time by writing to the Secretary.

6. 6

   No fee, due or sum paid to the Court is returned on resignation or withdrawal, in whole or in part. Where a founding place is withdrawn or resigned, the exemption from dues attached to it ends with the membership and does not survive it.

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   A membership that has been withdrawn is not offered again.

IV.Conduct and Discretion

Members and guests are asked to hold the affairs of the Court in confidence. Photography, publication, and the naming of other members are matters for the Committee.

V.Arrangements

The Court arranges through partners it has chosen, and those partners may compensate the Court for business arranged on a member’s behalf. The Court chooses a partner on the member’s interest and not on the fee.

VI.Intellectual Property

The arms, the name, the calendar, and the text of this site belong to the Court and may not be reproduced without written permission.

VII.Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, and any dispute is to be heard in the courts of that State.

This site is kept by The Mansa Court LLC, a New York limited liability company, whose address for correspondence is 54 State Street, Suite 804 #18002, Albany, New York 12207.