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Friendly societies

of cattle, for working men's clubs, or for any other purpose authorized by the Treasury. Before any such society can be properly established, its rules must have been transmitted to and approved of by the central office … Vict. c. 60), various prior statutes regulating these societies were in whole or in part repealed, and the law consolidated and amended. Such societies may be formed for providing payments on birth of a member's child, or

Dharma

righteous conduct covering every aspect of life essential for the sustenance and welfare of the individual and the society and includes those rules which guide and enable those who believe in God and heaven to attain moksha … cover the rules concerning all matters such as spiritual, moral and personal as also civil, criminal and constitutional law, it gives the precise meaning depending upon the context in which it is used. When dharma is used

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Terrorism

terrorist activity travels beyond the effect of an ordinary crime capable of being punished under the ordinary penal law of the land and its main objective is to overawe the Government to disturb harmony of the society

Officer

or the rules or the bye-laws to give directions in regard to the business of a multi-State co-operative society. [Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, 2002 (39 of 2002), s. 3(t)] The expression 'officer' in the dictionary sense means … military or naval officers for services rendered or to be rendered is not enforceable in a Court of law, see Jynaston v. A.G., 49 TLR 300. It means a person commissioned, gazetted or in pay as an

Person

s. 11) Person includes an individual, whether resident in India or outside India, a Hindu undivided family, Co-operative Society, a Company, whether incorporated in India or outside India, a firm, a proprietary concern, or an association of … Mohan-Sannyasi Charan Sadhukhan v. Commissioner of Excess Profit Tax, West Bengal, AIR 1953 SC 516. According to company law it does not mean an unregistered firm, Firm Pannaji v. Devichand Kapurchand, 99 IC 640. Person, does not

Law and order and public order

in the nature or quality of the act, but in the degree and extent of its reach upon society. Acts similar in nature, but committed in different contexts and circumstances, might cause different reactions. In one case … Law and order and public order, the acts which affect 'law and order' are not different from the acts

Building society

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Sovereignty

its internal affairs without foreign dictation; also a political society or State which is sovereign and independent, Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn., p. 1252. The term 'sovereignty' is difficult to define. It is the exercise of sovereign

Industrial and Provident Societies

(s. 1) for the registration of a society consisting of two or more other societies, and amends the law as to the audit of the accounts, nominations, and other matters. See also the Industrial Assurance Act, 1923,

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