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Wakf, 'wakf' means the permanent dedication by a person professing Islam of any movable or immovable property for any purpose recognised by the Muslim law as pious, religious or charitable and includes, - (i) a wakf by user; (ii) grants (including mashrut-ul-khidmat) for any purpose recognised by the Muslim law as pious, religious or charitable; and (iii) a wakf-alal-aulad to the extent to which the property is dedicated for any purpose recognised by Muslim law as pious, religious or charitable; and 'wakif' means any person making such dedication, Board of Muslim Wakfs v. Radha Kishan, AIR 1979 SC 289 (293): (1979) 2 SCC 468: (1979) 2 SCR 148.Means the permanent dedication by a person professing Islam, of any movable or immovable property for any purpose recognised by the Muslim law as pious, religious or charitable and includes:(i) a wakf by user but such wakf shall not cease to be a wakf by reason only of the user having ceased irrespective of the period of such cesser;(ii) 'grants',...
Mutawalli
Mutawalli, 'Mutawallis' of a wakf are more like receivers appointed over the property than trustees and they have no errate or interest in it, Mahendra Narayan v. Abdul Gafur, 59 Cal 586.Mutawalli, A 'mutawalli' is more like a manager than a trustee and so far as the wakf property is concerned, has to see that the beneficiaries get the advantage of usufruct, Bibi Siddique Fatima v. Saiyed Mohammad Mahmood Hasan, AIR 1978 SC 1362 (1369): (1978) 3 SCC 299: (1978) 3 SCR 886.Means any person appointed, either verbally or under any deed or instrument by which a wakf has been created, or by a competent authority, to be the mutawalli of a wakf and includes any person who is a mutawalli of a wakf by virtue of any custom or who is a naib-mutawalli, khadim, mujawar, sajjadanashin, amin or other person appointed by a mutawalli to perform the duties of a mutawalli and save as otherwise provided in this Act, any person, committee or corporation for the time being managing or administering any wakf ...
List of wakfs
List of wakfs, 'list of wakfs' means the list of wakfs published under sub-s. (2) of s. 5. [Wakfs Act, 1995 (43 of 1995), s. 3(g)]...
Shia Wakf
Shia Wakf, means a wakf governed by Shia law. [Wakf Act, 1995 (43 of 1995), s. 3(n)]...
Sunni wakf
Sunni wakf, means a wakf governed by Sunni law. [Wakf Act, 1995 (43 of 1995), s. 3(o)]...
Wakf deed
Wakf deed, means any deed or instrument by which a wakf has been created and includes any valid subsequent deed or instrument by which any of the terms of the original dedication have been varied. [Wakf Act, 1995 (43 of 1995), s. 3 (s)]...
Wakf fund
Wakf fund, means a wakf fund formed under sub-s. (1) of s. 77. [Wakf Act, 1995 (43 of 1995), s. 3(t)]...
Person interest in wakf
Person interest in wakf, means any person who is entitled to receive any pecuniary or other benefits from the wakf and includes:(i) any person who has a right to worship or to perform any religious rite in a mosque, idgah, imambara, dargah, khangah, maqbara, graveyard or any other religious institution connected with the wakf or to participate in any religious or charitable institution under the wakf;(ii) the wakf and any descendant of the wakf and the mutawalli. [Wakf Act, 1995, s. 3(k)]...
Beneficiary
Beneficiary, he that is in possession of a benefice; also the person having the beneficial enjoyment of property of which a trustee, executor, etc., has the legal possession, in which sense it is gradually superseding the old term cestui que trust: see, e.g., s. 62 of the Trustee Act, 1925. See CESTUI QUE TRUST.Means a person or object for whose benefit a wakf is created and includes religious, pious and charitable objects and any other objects of public utility sanctioned by the Muslim law. [Wakf Act, 1995 (43 of 1995), s. 3 (a)]Means (1) a person whose application has been accepted or (2) a person who occupies a holding or part of a holding following a change of occupation and who has given an undertaking to comply with set aside obligations relating to that holding or part assumed by the previous occupier, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2),. 4th Edn., Para 595, p. 339.Means a person or entity (as a charity or estate) that receives a benefit from something; a person or entity nam...
Net annual income
Net annual income, 'net annual income', in relation to a wakf, means net annual income determined in accordance with the provisions of the Explanations to sub-s. (1) of s. 72. [Wakf Act, 1995 (43 of 1995) s. 3(j)]...
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