Visitation
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The act of examining into the affairs of a corporation. The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and eleemosynary corporations.
1 Bl. Comm. 480; 2 Kyd, Corp. 174.
The visitation of civil corporations is by the government itself, through the medium of the courts of justice.
See 2 Kent, Comm. 240.