law: Cantonments Act, I924 
  
  11.Incorporation of Cantonment Board:-
  Every Board shall, by the name of the place by
  
  reference to which the cantonment is known, be a body corporate having
  
  perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire and hold property
  
  both movable and immovable and to contract and shall, by the said name, sue and
  
  be sued.]