law: Co-Operative Societies Act, 1912
  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.