Visitation
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
is the act of examining into the affairs of a corporation. The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and eleemosynary corporations.
1 BI. Com. 480; 2 Kyd on Corp. 174.
The visitation of civil corporations is by the government itself, through the medium of the courts of justice.
Vide 2 Kent, Com. 240.