Common Seal
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
The seal of a corporation, by which alone, at common law, it could speak and act.
Davies* B. 121. Dger, 81 a.
The rule requiring a seal to bind a corporation has, however, been considerably relaxed in England, and is, in a freat degree, done away in the jurispruence of the United States. 2 Kent's Com. 288 — 291, and notes.