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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...

Religious institutions

Religious institutions, means a math, temple or specific endowment. Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1959, s. 6(18), Joint Commissioner, Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Administration Dept. v. Jayaram, AIR 2006 SC 104....

Ritual

Ritual, the order of ministration and ceremonies in the Church of England.Means pertaining or relating to, connected with rites. The word 'rite' is a formal procedure or act in a religious or other solemn observance, Muniandi Kone v. Arulmigu Mangalanathaswami Temple....

Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff

Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff [fr. scire, Sax., fr. scyran, to divide, and gerefa, a guardian (vicecomes)], the chief officer of the Crown in every county.The judges, together with the other great officers and privy councillors, meet in the Exchequer on the morrow (November 12th) of St. Martin, yearly; and then and there the judges propose three persons from each county, to be reported, if approved of, to the King, who afterwards appoints one of them to be sheriff, and such appointment generally takes place about the end of the following Hilary Term. If a sheriff die in office, the appointment of another is the mere act of the Crown.The Sheriffs Act, 1887, repeals and, so far as they were not obsolete, re-enacts the very numerous enactments as to sheriffs from 3 Edw. 1, c. 9, to s. 16 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1881, inclusive. By s. 3 of this Act a sheriff is annually appointed, having (s. 4) sufficient land within the county to answer the King and his people; by s. 23 every ...

Washing-horn

Washing-horn [fr. corner l'eau, Fr.], the sounding of a horn for washing before dinner. The custom was formerly observed in the Temple...

Whitefriars

Whitefriars, a place in London between the Temple and Blackfriars, which was formerly a sanctuary, and therefore privileged from arrest see ALSATIA...

Revestiary

The apartment in a church or temple where the vestments etc are kept now contracted into vestry...

Peristyle

A range of columns with their entablature etc specifically a complete system of columns whether on all sides of a court or surrounding a building such as the cella of a temple Used in the former sense it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling the peristyle See Colonnade...

Pseudo peripteral

Falsely or imperfectly peripteral as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end...

Fane

A temple a place consecrated to religion a church...

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