Societies formed by memorandum of association and registration is defined under Section 1 of Societies Registration Act 1860
Any seven or more persons associated for any literary, scientific, or charitable purpose, or for any such purpose as is described in section 20 of this Act, may, by subscribing their names to a memorandum of association, and filing the same with the Registrar of Joint-stock Companies, form themselves into a society under this Act.
SOCIETIES REGISTRATION ACT 1860
Section 1 - Societies formed by memorandum of association and registration
Section 2 - Memorandum of association
Section 3 - Registration and fees
Section 4 - Annual list of managing body to be filed
Section 5 - Property of society how vested
Section 6 - Suits by and against societies
Section 7 - Suits not to abate
Section 8 - Enforcement of judgment against society
Section 9 - Recovery of penalty accruing under bye-law
Section 10 - Members liable to be sued as strangers
Section 11 - Members guilty of offences punishable as strangers
Section 12 - Societies enabled to alter, extend, or abridge their purposes
Section 13 - Provision for dissolution of societies and adjustment of their affairs
Section 14 - Upon a dissolution no member to receive profit
Section 16 - Governing body defined
Section 17 - Registration of societies formed before Act
Section 18 - Such societies to file memorandum, etc., with Registrar of Joint-stock Companies