Incorporation
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The act of creating a corporation. In Civil Law. The union of one domain to another.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The certificate filed in conformity with a general law, by persons who desire to become a corporation, setting forth the rules and conditions upon which
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
1. The act or process of forming or creating a corporation; the formation of a legal or political body, with the quality of perpetual existence and succession, unless limited by the act of incorporation.
2. The method of making one document of any kind become a part of another separate document by referring to the former In the latter, and declaring that the former shall be taken and considered as a part of the latter the same as if it were fully set out therein. This is more fully described as "incorporation by reference." If the one document is copied at length in the other, it ls called "actual Incorporation."
3.
In the civil law. The union of one domain to another.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
The forming into a body; the creation of an artificial body having perpetual succession; a corporation.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
1. The act or process of forming or creating a corporation; the formation of a legal or political body, with the quality of perpetual existence and succession, unless limited by the act of incorporation. 2. The method of making one document of any kind become a part of another separate document by referring to the former in the latter, and declaring that the former shall be taken and considered as a part of the latter the same as if it were fully set out therein. This is more fully described as "incorporation by reference." If the one document is copied at length in the other, it is called "actual incorporation." 3.
In the civil law. The union of one domain to another.