Voluntary Association Law & Legal Definition

Voluntary association is an unincorporated society or body of individuals, formed for social, political, moral, religious, benevolent, protective, or mutual purposes, or to promote some public, scientific or educational object, or to facilitate business, and not for purposes of trade or direct pecuniary profit.

By its incorporation a voluntary association is merged in the corporate body, its members become the constituent members of the corporation, and its property becomes the property of the corporation. [First Russian Nat'l Organization, Inc. v. Zuraw, 89 Conn. 616 (Conn. 1915)].