Corporate body
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
This term, or its equivalent "body corporate," is applied to private corporations aggregate; not including municipal corporations.
Cedar County v. Johnson, 50 Mo. 225 ; East Oakland Tp. v. Skinner, 94 U. S. 256, 24 L. Ed. 125 ; Campbell v. Railroad Co., 71 111. 611; Co.m. v. Beamish, 81 Pa. St. 391.