Collegium

Lat. [from colligere, to gather together.] In the civil law. An association of persons, usually of the members of a trade; a corporation, company, or college; otherwise called universitas.

Dig. 3. 4.

7, et per tot. It necessarily consisted of three persons at least, (tres faciunt collegium.) Dig. 50.

16. 85.

A collegium which was confirmed by special enactment, or by a senatus consultum, or an imperial constitution, was called collegium licitum, or legitimum. Otherwise it was illegal, (illicitum.) Dig. 47.

22. 3. 1. 2 Kent's Com. 268, 269.

As to the application of this word in English law, see Dyer, 233 b, 267.