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Section 18. Societies to be bodies corporate.
The Co-operative Societies Act, 1912
In forceAll India (Central Act)
18. Societies to be bodies corporate. The registration of a society shall render it a body corporate by the name under which it is registered, with perpetual succession and a common seal, and with power to hold property, to enter into contracts, to institute and defend suits and other legal proceedings and to do all things necessary for the purposes of its constitution.