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Pious purpose

Pious purpose, a Hindu father or any other manag-ing member has

Wakf

property for any purpose recognised by the Muslim law as pious, religious or charitable and includes, - (i) a wakf by

Religious trust

for any purpose recognised by Hindu Law to be religious, pious or charitable, but shall not include a trust created according

Pentecostals

Pentecostals, pious oblations made at the feast of Pentecost by parishioners to

Oblations

oblations which are offered to God and the Church by pious and faithful Christians, whether the things are movable or immovable.),

Nonagium, or Nonage

their parish, and claimed on pretence of being distributed to pious uses, Blount. The condition of being under twenty one years

Eleemosynarius

rents and gifts, and in due method distributed them to pious and charitable uses.

Deodand

it was forfeited to the Crown to be applied to pious uses and distributed in alms by the high almoner; but

Charity

own self or kith and kin may be meritorious and pious but is not a charity in the legal sense and

Charities, or Public Trusts

became a fixed maxim of civil law that legacies to pious uses (which included all legacies destined to works of charity,

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