Corporation sole

A corporation having but one member. See 23 Wend. (N. Y.) 103.

<A corporation consisting of one person only, and his suecessors in some particular station, who ave incorporated by law in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had.

In this sense, the sovereign in England is a sole corporation, so is a bishop, so are some deans distinct from their several chapters, and so is every parson and vicar. 38 Steph. Comm. 168, 169; 2 Kent, Comm. 273. A corporation sole consists of a single person, who is made a body corporate and politic, in order to give him some legal capacities and advantages, eS aud especially that of perpetuity; as a bishop, dean, ete. 7 Abb. Pr. 184; 22 Pick, 122.

A corporation consisting of one person only, and his successors in some particular station, who are incorporated by law in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had.

In this sense, the sovereign in England is a sole corporation, so is a bishop, so are some deans distinct from their several chapters, and so is every parson and vicar. 3 Sleph, Com, 168, 169. 2 Kent's Com, 273. In the United States, a minister seised of parsonage lands in right of the parish is held to be a sole corporation for this purpose. 7 Mass, R, 445. But in general, corporations of this kind are of rare occurrence.