law: Companies Act, 1956
  Sec 13    -    
  
  Requirements with respect to memorandum. 
  (1) The memorandum of every company shall
  
  state :
  (a) the name of the company with
  
  "Limited" as the last word of the name in the case of a public
  
  limited company, and with "Private Limited" as the last words of the
  
  name in the case of a private limited company;
  (b) the State in which the registered office
  
  of the company is to be situate;
  (c) in the case of a company in existence
  
  immediately before the commencement of the Companies (Amendment) Act, 1965, (31
  
  of 1965) the objects of the company;
  (d) in the case of a company formed after such
  
  commencement,
  (i) the main objects of the company to be
  
  pursued by the company on its incorporation and objects incidental or ancillary
  
  to the attainment of the main objects;
  (ii) other objects of the company not included
  
  in sub-clause (i); and
  (e) in the case of companies (other than
  
  trading corporations), with objects not confined to one State, the States to
  
  whose territories the objects extend.
  (2) The memorandum of a company limited by
  
  shares or by guarantee shall also state that the liability of its members is
  
  limited.
  (3) The memorandum of a company limited by
  
  guarantee shall also state that each member undertakes to contribute to the
  
  assets of the company in the event of its being wound up while he is a member
  
  or within one year after he ceases to be a member, for payment of the debts and
  
  liabilities of the company, or of such debts and liabilities of the company as
  
  may have been contracted before he ceases to be a member, as the case may be,
  
  and of the costs, charges and expenses of winding up, and for adjustment of the
  
  rights of the contributories among themselves, such amount as may be required,
  
  not exceeding a specified amount.
  (4) In the case of a company having a share
  
  capital :
  (a) unless the company is an unlimited
  
  company, the memorandum shall also state the amount of share capital with which
  
  the company is to be registered and the division thereof into shares of a fixed
  
  amount;
  (b) no subscriber of the memorandum shall take
  
  less than one share; and
  (c) each subscriber of the memorandum shall
  
  write opposite to his name the number of shares he takes.