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Home Dictionary Name: religious institutions Page: 2Agamas
Agamas, see N. Adithayon v. Tranvancore Devaswom Board, (2002) 8 SCC 106. [Tranvancore-Cochin Hindu Religious Institution Act (15 of 1950), s. 31]...
Bank Deposit Rate
Bank Deposit Rate, 'bank deposit rate' means the highest of the maximum rates at which interest may be paid on different classes of deposits (other than those maintained in savings account or those maintained by charitable or religious institutions) by different classes of scheduled banks in accordance with the directions given or issued to banking companies generally by the Reserve Bank of India under the Banking Regulation Act, 1949; (10 of 1949). [Additional Emoluments (Compulsory Deposit) Act, 1974 (37 of 1974) s. 2 (d)]...
Current rate of interest
Current rate of interest, means the highest of the maximum rates at which interest maybe paid on different classes of deposits (other than those maintained in savings account or those maintained by charitable or religious institutions) by different classes of scheduled banks in accordance with the directions given or issued to banking companies generally by the Reserve Bank of India under the Banking Regulation Act, 1949. [The Interest Act, 1978 (14of 1978), s. 2 (b)...
Service
Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which is either urbane or rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE.The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.The formal mode of bringing a writ or other process, or a notice in a suit, to the knowledge of the person affected by it.The service of writs of summons is regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., which by r. 1 dispenses wit service, when (as is usual) the defendant, by his solicitor, agrees to accept service, and enters an appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,...
Usage
Usage, denotes a habit or a mode of conduct or a course of action. Though such behaviour may generally be linked with human actions it is not the identify of the person vis-'-vis his caste which matters in discerning the contours of any 'usage'. 'Usage' is described as different from custom as there is no usage through inheritance though a right can be acquired by prescription. 'Usage in its most extensive meaning, includes both custom and prescription, but in its narrower significance, it refers to a general habit, mode or course of procedure. A usage differ from a custom, in that it does not require to be immemorial to establish the same, but the usage must be known, certain, uniform, reasonable and contrary to law'. Usage has been referred to a course of dealing; or a mode of conducting transactions of a particular kind. It cannot be understood as referring to any entitle-ment of a person to hold a particular office, N. Adithayan v. Travancore Devaswom Board (FB), AIR 1996 Ker 169; ...
Religious denomination
Religious denomination, different sects and sub-sects of the Hindu Religion having a common faith and a common spiritual organisation come under the definition of denomination, Shirur Math v. Commission of Endowment, (1952) 1 MLJ 557.Religious denomination, enjoys certain rights per-taining to the establishment, management etc., of its own religion and charitable institutions, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, 4th Edn., Vol. 2, p. 159.Religious denomination, in India, subject to public order, morality and health, every religious denomination or any section thereof enjoys the fundamental right to establish and maintain institutions for religious and charitable purposes, to manage its own affairs in matters of religion, to own and acquire movable and immovable property and to administer such property in accordance with law, Constitution of India, Art. 26.Religious denomination, is a religious sect or body having a common faith and organization and designated by a...
Choultry
Choultry, 'choultry' is indeed an ancient institution and is principally meant for lodging of pilgrims and travellers. It is conceivable that in 1884, when the first municipal legislation was passed in Madras, such institutions were some humble sheds and other structures to enable the pilgrims to stay for a short while when they came to visit temples and other religious places. This institution, like similar others elsewhere, has come to stay as a symbol of religious and charitable disposition of human mind translated into physical manifestation in the shape of safe shelter for the pilgrims, Municipal Council Tirupathi v. Tirupathi Tirumalai Devasthanam, AIR 1974 SC 521 (523): (1974) 1 SCC 683. [T.N. District Municipalities Act, (5 of 1920), s. 83(1) (b)]...
Establish and maintain
Establish and maintain, the words 'establish and maintain' must be read conjunctively and it is only institutions which a religious denomination establishes which it can claim to maintain. The right to maintain institutions for religious and charitable purposes would include the right to administer them, S. Azeez Basha v. Union of India, AIR 1968 SC 667 (674): (1968) 1 SCR 833. [Constitution of India, Art. 26(a)]...
Piarist
One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie religious schools an institute of secondary education founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century...
Minorities
Minorities, means 'groups held together by ties of common descent, language or religious faith and feeling different in these respects from the majority of the inhabitants of a given political entity, T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481.The Constitution of India recognizes two categories of minorities, viz. religious minorities and linguistic minorities; have the fundamental right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice and to conserve the district language, scripts or culture of their own, Constitution of India, Art. 29 and 30.Minority [fr. minor, Lat.], the state of being under age--e.g., twenty-one years. also, the smaller number.The minority under article 30 of the Constitution of India mean those from a distinct and identifiable group of citizens of India, St. Stephen's College v. University of Delhi, AIR 1992 SC 1630 (1646). [Constitution of India, Article 30]The word 'minority is not defined in the Constitution but literally...
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