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Classes of citizens

some common attributes. The homogeneity of the class of citizens is social and educational backwardness. neither caste nor religion nor place of birth will be the uniform element of common attributes to make them a class of

Conscientize

'Gandhiji did conscientize himself to say that if the policy of the Raj is satanic, sedition is his religion. '[The Individual and the Indian Republic-A Constitutional Synthesis in Legally Speaking, p. 228] (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)

Contra formam collationis

Contra formam collationis, a writ that issued where lands given in perpetual alms to any late houses of religion, as to an abbot and convent, or to the warden or master of any hospital and his convent,

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Conventicle

Conventicle, a private assembly or meeting for the exercise of religion; forbidden by Canons 12, 13 and 73. See DISSENTERS. By the (English) Conventicle Act, 22 Car. 2, c.

Conventual Church

Conventual Church, one which consists of regular clerks professing some order of religion; or of dean and chapter; or other societies of spiritual men.

County Councils

and the qualification for being elected similar to that required for electionto office onany local authority. Ministers of religion are not disqulaified, and peers owing property in the county and persons registered as parliamentary voters in respect

Coronation oath

sovereign swears to observe the laws, customs, and privileges of the kingdom, and to maintain the Protestant reformed religion. The exact form of the oath was prescribed by 1 w. & M. s. 2, c. 2, but

Denarii S. Petri

payment on St. Peter's feast of a penny from every family to the pope, while the Roman Catholic religion was established. Abolished by 25 Hen. 8, c. 21.

Church

(ibid. p. 69). The standard of doctrine and practice is settled by the Thirty-nine Articles (see Articles OF RELIGION) agreed on by convocation in Londin in 1562, and confirmed by 13 Eliz. c. 12, in 1571; by

Endowment

from that principal is used, Black's Law Dictionary, p. 548. Endowment is dedication of property for purposes of religion or charity having both the subject and object certain and capable of ascertainment, Pratap Singh Ji N. Desai

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