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Succession to this office

46 BLR 212) Ordinarily a Shebaitship or the office of Dharmakartha is vested in the heirs of the founder unless the founder has laid down a special scheme of succession or except when usage or custom to

Foundation

dotation, the first gift of the revenues is called the foundation, and he who gives it is the founder in law [Sutton's Hospital case, (1613) 10 Rep 1; 1 Bl. Com. 468]. The basis on which something

Observantine

the Order of Franciscans who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder especially as to poverty called also Observants

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Public temple

In the case of a private temple it is also not unlikely that the religious reputation of the founder may be of such a high order that the private temple founded by him may attract devotees in

Prestimony, or Pr'stimonia

Prestimony, or Pr'stimonia, a fund or revenue appropriated by the founder for the subsistence of a priest, without being erected into any title or benefice, chapel, prebend, or priory.

Hindu

Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has observed; 'The Hindu civilization is so called, since its original founders or earliest followers occupied the territory drained by the Sindhu (the Indus) river system corresponding to the North

Eleemosynary corporations

Eleemosynary corporations, corporate bodies con-stituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms or bounty of the founder of them. Of this kind are all hospitals for the maintenance of the poor, sick, and impotent, and

Corporation or body politic

the rights of the Church, or lay'sub-divided into civil, created for many temporal purposes, and eleemosynary, to perpetuate founders' charities. It is by virtue of the sovereign's prerogative exercised by a charter, or of an Act of

Corody, or corrody

meat, drink, and clothing due to the Crown from the abbey or other religious house, whereof it was founder, towards the sustentation of such one of its servants as is thought fit to receive it. It differs

Shafiite

A member of one of the four sects of the Sunnites or Orthodox Mohammedans so called from its founder Mohammed al Shafeiuml

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