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Equal protection
of law, Constitution of India, Art. 14. Is a Constitutional right guaranteed to every citizen irrespective of his religion, race, caste, sex, place or birth; no citizen will be given discriminatory treatment by the State on the
Equality
or appointment to any office under the State, no citizen will be denied employment on the ground of religion, race, caste, sex and place of birth etc. However, the State can make special provision for reservation of
Excommunication
lesser he was merely debarred from participation in the Sacraments. See No. 33 of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion as to avoiding an excommunicated person 'until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the church
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Guardianship
interests of an infant ward, where there was no guardian already. The guardian was usually of the same religion as the infant's parents, and must be solvent, of a moral, capable, and humane character, and resident in
Hindu Law
Act, 1956 which dealt with the applicability of that Act to any person who is a Hindu by religion, Yagnapurushodasji v. Muldas, AIR 1996 SC 1109. S. 7(1) of Joint Family Abolition Act and s. 4(1)(a) of
Ecclesiastical Corporations
Ecclesiastical Corporations. Corporations created for the furtherance of religion, and for the perpetuation of the rights of the church, the members of which are exclusively spiritual persons.
Charitable purpose
be comprised-trusts for the relief of poverty; trusts for the advancement of education; trusts for the advancement of religion; and trusts for other purposes beneficial to the community not falling under any of the preceding heads. The
Christian
Christian, the expression 'Christian' means persons professing the Christian religion. (Christian Marriage Act, 1872, s. 3)
Sabianism
The doctrine of the Sabians the Sabian religion that species of idolatry which consists in worshiping the sun moon and stars heliolatry
Indian Christian
in good faith claims to be, of unmixed Asiatic descent and who professes any form of the Christian religion. [Indian Succession Act, 1925 (39 of 1925), s. 2 (d)]
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