Business.

The terms business, transactions, and proceedings with reference to a lodge mean the legislative, administrative, and judicial functions that are considered and disposed of at the regular or stated meetings, as distinguished from work, which refers to the conferring of degrees, also called labor, especially, in the ritual. Business can only be transacted at meetings of which the members have actual or constructive notice. In accordance with civil law, members have constructive notice of the regular stated meetings fixed by the by-laws, but if business is to be transacted at other meetings, which it seldom is, such meetings have to be arranged specially and notice thereof given to each member. Masonic trials are a type of business never transacted at stated meetings but always at special sessions of the Trial Commission. Work or labor may be done at any called or special meeting or at a stated meeting at the will of the Master.