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Wakf

person professing Islam of any movable or immovable property for any purpose recognised by the Muslim law as pious, religious or charitable and includes, - (i) a wakf by user; (ii) grants (including mashrut-ul-khidmat) for any purpose

Religious trust

any express or constructive trust created or existing for any purpose recognised by Hindu Law to be religious, pious or charitable, but shall not include a trust created according to the Sikh religion or purely for the

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Charity

for public good. A private gift to one's own self or kith and kin may be meritorious and pious but is not a charity in the legal sense and the courts in India have never regarded such … the legal sense and the courts in India have never regarded such gifts as for religious or charitable purposes even under the Mahomedan Law, Fazlul Rabbi Pradhan v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1965 SC 1722 (1727).

Charities, or Public Trusts

relaxed; and in the time of Justinian it became a fixed maxim of civil law that legacies to pious uses (which included all legacies destined to works of charity, whether they related to spiritual or temporal concerns) … whether a gift is charitable depends not on whether it may, but whether it must be applied to purposes strictly charitable; see Morice v. Bishop of Durham, (1904) 9 Ves 399 (406); Re Dovidson, (1909) 1 Ch

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