Article 11. Life

Any group with two separate and secure eyes, or potential for this, is alive. If a group does not have two eyes but cannot be captured, it is deemed to be alive ( Figure 7 )

Figure 7

In A and B Black's groups are alive.
In C and D the internal groups are alive.

Article 12. Bik (a local stalemate, seki in japanese)

In a capturing race when neither group has two eyes, but cannot capture the other group, it is called Bik (a local stalemate) In this case no empty points are counted as territory (Figure8)

Figure 8

These positions are all Bik (local stalemates).