Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Institution

INSTITUTION, in civil law, the appointment of a debtor as heir of a testator. Also a Christian educational establishment, with a school and college department, for teaching young Hindus and Mohammedans the religion and science of the West, chiefly through the medium of the English tongue. Chiefly Anglo-Indian.

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