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  2. Legal person - Wikipedia

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    Indian law defines two types of "legal person", the human beings as well as certain non-human entities which are given the same legal judicial personality as human beings. The non-human entities given the "legal person" status by the law "have rights and co-relative duties; they can sue and be sued, can possess and transfer property".

  3. Corporate personhood - Wikipedia

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    Under Indian law the corporate, managing bodies, etc. and several other non-human entitles have been given the status of the "legal person". In court cases regarding corporate, the shareholders are not responsible for the company's debts but the company itself being a "legal person" is liable to repay those debts or be sued for the non ...

  4. National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India - Wikipedia

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    National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India (2014) is a landmark judgement of the Supreme Court of India, which declared transgender people the 'third gender', affirmed that the fundamental rights granted under the Constitution of India will be equally applicable to them, and gave them the right to self-identification of their gender as male, female or third gender.

  5. Legal practice in India - Wikipedia

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    Parts I, II and III deal with establishment of Bar Council of India, state bar councils, lawyers and their roles. [3] Part IV deals with rules of legal education being rules on standards of legal education and recognition of degrees in law for the purpose of enrolment as advocate and inspection of Universities for recognizing its degree in law. [4]

  6. List of office-holders in the Government of India - Wikipedia

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    President of the Republic of India: Droupadi Murmu: 25 July 2022 [1] Vice President of the Republic of India: Jagdeep Dhankhar: 11 August 2022 [2] Prime Minister of the Republic of India: Narendra Modi: 26 May 2014 [3] Chief Justice of the Republic of India: Sanjiv Khanna: 11 November 2024 Speaker of Lok Sabha: Om Birla: 19 June 2019 [4] Chief ...

  7. LGBTQ rights in India - Wikipedia

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    There are approximately 480,000 transgender people in India as per Census 2011. [12] [13] [14] Since the 2010s, LGBTQ people in India have increasingly gained tolerance and acceptance in society, [15] with a 2023 Pew Research Center poll finding that 53% of Indians supported the legalisation of same-sex marriage, while 43% were opposed. [16]

  8. List of legal entity types by country - Wikipedia

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    selected state (statio fisci) or self-governmental legal entities other than legal persons: budgetary units: e.g. State Forests National Forest Holding, Agricultural Social Insurance Fund, statistical offices and the Central Statistical Office, units of various state uniformed services, state inspections and their laboratories – operating on ...

  9. National Register of Citizens - Wikipedia

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    The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is meant to be a register of all Indian citizens whose creation was mandated by the 2003 amendment of the Citizenship Act, 1955.Its purpose is to document all the legal citizens of India so that the illegal immigrants can be identified and deported.