Body Politic
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A term applied to a corporation, which is usually designaied as a “hody corporate and politic.” The term is particularly appropriate to a public corporation invested with powers and duties of government, It is often used, ina rather loose way, to designate the state or nation or sovereign power, or the government of a county or municipality, without distinctly connoting any express and individual corporate character,