Co-operative Societies Act : Societies to be bodies corporate Indian Bare Acts :

Co-operative Societies Act,1912

Act No : 2

Section : Societies to be bodies corporate

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.