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Terminating Building Societies

Terminating Building Societies, societies where the members commence their monthly contributions on a particular day, and continue to pay them until the realization of shares to a given amount for each member, the society advancing the capital of the society to such members as require it by mortgage to secure the payment of interest as well as principal by them, and so as to ensure such realization within a given period of years, when the society terminates. See Building Societies Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 42), s. 5, and BUILDING SOCIETY. Consult Wurtzburg or Davis on Building Societies...

Building societies

Building societies, associations of persons subscribing to a common fund which is employed in making advances to such members (called 'advanced members') as desire to obtain them on the security of real or leasehold property, while those members who do not desire an advance (called 'investing members' ) simply pay their contributions to the society and receive interest thereon. Building societies are either (a) Unincor-porated, or (b) Incorporated. Unincorporated societies (now few in number) are governed by the (English) Building Societies Act of 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 32), and certain sections of the old (English) Friendly Societies Acts of 1829 and 1835 (repealed for all other purposes) incorporated therewith. Incorporated societies are governed by the (English) Building Societies Acts, 1874 to 1894, and the (English) Building Societies Regulations, 1895, made thereunder. A cross division of these societies is into (1) Terminating, and (2) Permanent. A Terminating Society is one whic...

Entity

Entity, means a person, association of persons, firm, company or co-operative society, by whatsoever name called or referred to, other than a dealer or distributor and engaged or intending to be engaged in refining, processing storage, transpor-tation, distribution, marketing, import and export of petroleum, petroleum products and natural gas including laying of pipelines for transportation of petroleum, petroleum products and natural gas, or laying, building, operating or expanding city or local natural gas distribution network or establishing and operating a liquefied natural gas terminal, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006, s. 2(p)....

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