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Mortmain

temporal, 2 Bl. Com. 268. By several old statutes, alienation of lands and tenements in mortmain, i.e., to religious and other corporations, which were supposed to hold them in a dead or unserviceable hand, were prohibited under

Om

a special significance in the Hindu scriptures. It is recited at the commence-ment of the recitations of Hindu religious works. Macdonell in his 'A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary' states that 'Om' is the sacred syllable used in invocations,

Owner

corporate or other association of individuals, whether incorporated or not, or trust (whether public or private or whether religious or charitable) who or which owns or controls, the whole or substantially the whole of such undertaking, and

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Pathakanika

the context of s. 52(1) (g), pathakanika would mean personal gifts to the Mahant, Sudhindra Thirtha v. Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, AIR 1963 SC 966 (973). [Tamil Nadu Religious and Charitable Endowment Act, 1951 s. 52(1)(g)]

Persecution

not respect the standards established by the laws of the country concerned. A case in point may be religious intolerance, amounting to persecution, in a country otherwise secular, but where sizable fractions of the population do not

Person having interest

Person having interest, means a disciple of the math or a person professing the Hindu religious or Sikh faith to which the math belongs, Mahant Sri Regunath Das v. Commissioner of Hindu Religious Endowment,

Place of worship

Place of worship, means a temple, mosque, guru-dwara, church, monastery or any other place of public religious worship of any religious denomi-nation or any section thereof, by whatever name called. [Places of Worship (Special Provisions)

Virulent

'Virulence' as a ground for exclusion from inheritance is treated from an entirely different angle in the Hindu religious and legal texts. The general emphasis in those contexts was of the competence of a man to perform

Sacramentum

Sand. Just., and Cum. C. L. 313. Means the money staked as wager. The word evidently has a religious significance. The sum of the wager, forfeited by the party found to be in the wrong, was anciently

School

local educational authorities to make grants to non-provided schools in certain cases; and makes provision with respect to religious instruction in non-provided schools, when the parents desire the children to receive such religious instruction. Schools of Anatomy,

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