*64.* _Incorporation, Evidence._—The certificate of incorporation or charter of a religious society or a certified copy thereof from the public record, is the proper evidence thereof.(115) Secondary evidence and evidence _aliunde_ may be competent in some forums.(116) In most States if incorporation is alleged in the complaint, it need not be proved unless denied by an affidavit or a verified answer. *65.* _Congregation, Members._—The act of incorporation applies only to the particular congregation petitioning for it and does not extend to other churches, even though they are a subsequent growth within the same territory.(117) Incorporation once established is presumed to continue.(118) When a new religious society is formed and incorporated, consisting of individuals from existing parishes, the members of the new society from the time of its incorporation cease to be members of the respective parishes to which they had belonged.(119) *66.* _Temporal Affairs, Management._—A majority of a religious corporation at a regularly called meeting may, by a vote taken, bind the minority in all temporal affairs.(120) The character of membership in the religious corporation may be very different from that of membership in the church.(121) The fact that a member has been declared out of the church by an ecclesiastical tribunal, may not affect his rights in the management of the temporal concerns of the corporation.(122) *67.* _Corporators, Change._—In isolated cases here and there it has been held that a majority of the corporators of a religious society has the right to change the form of church government, as from the Congregational Church to an organization in connection with the Presbyterian Church.(123) But it is a general rule that a majority of the congregation can act only consistently with the particular and general laws of the church organization, but not in violation of them.(124) *68.* _Constitution, Subsequent Laws._—An ecclesiastical society formed before the adoption of the state constitution is not by that constitution and subsequent laws concerning religious societies divested of its legal character.(125) *69.* _Name, Change._—The name of an ecclesiastical corporation is arbitrary and a change or alteration in its name does not affect its identity.(126) A charter will not be granted to a church with a name so like another church in the same State, that one may be taken for the other.(127) *70.* _Church, Regular._—In church organizations those who adhere to the regular order of the church, legal and general, though a minority, are the true congregation and constitute the corporation if incorporated.(128) *71.* _Notice, Legal._—All the proceedings of a corporation, including notice, must be in accordance with the constitution and by-laws, and no business transacted contrary thereto is legal.(129)