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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
) [L. Lat. corpus corporatum.] A corporation; so called because the persons composing it are made into a body.
Co, Litt. 250 a.
Said to be the most correct as well as the earliest name of a corporation in English law. P. Cyclopcsdia, voc.
Corporation.