Re Bucks Constabulary Widows and Orphans Fund Friendly Society (no 2) [1979] 1 All ER 623 is an English trusts law case, concerning the policy of the "beneficiary principle" and unincorporated associations.
The Bucks Constabulary Fund Friendly Society was set up to give relief to widows and orphans of deceased members.
It was disputed whether surplus assets should go to the Crown as bona vacantia, or be distributed among the members equally on a per capita, or another basis.
Walton J held that the present members of the association shared in the surplus property equally.
The ratio from this case is largely irrelevant following Hanchett‐Stamford v Attorney‐General[1] in which dissolution by membership falling below two entitles the surviving member to the remainder of the unincorporated associations assets.