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5; Tail. Body-lifting or snatching. See BtrELiL. 2. A number of individuals considered collectively, usually organized for a common purpose: as, a legislative body. An artificial body or that devised by human laws.5 An artificial body can do only what is authorized by its charter or by law; & natural person or body, whatever is not forbidden by law.* Body corporate or corporate body. An artificial body; a corporation, q. v. Body politic. The governmental, sovereign power: a cjty or a State. A body to take in succession, framed as to its capacity by policy, and, therefore, called by Littleton a body politic; and it is termed a corporation or body politic, because the persons are made into a body, and are of l Eiddle !». Welden, 5 Whart. 9, 14 (1839); Stone v. Matthews, 7 Hill, 428 (1844). " Which last word see. s [1 Bl. Com. 467. « Sanchez v. People, 22 N. T. 149 (1860). » 1 Bl. Com. 467. capacity to take, grant, etc., by a particular name.i ' ' Body corporate and politic " is said, in the older books, to be the most exact expression for a public corporation or corporation having powers of government. The body politic is the " social compact by which the whole people covenant with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good." 2 While that compact does not confer power upon the whole to control purely private rights, it authorizes laws requiring each to so act as not to injure another — which is the very essence of government.* See Corporation, Public. 3. The physical part or portion of a thing. Body of a county or of a State. A county or a State considered in its territorial entirety, as distinguished from a portion of the territory, and from the legal corporation. Jurisdiction in admiralty extends over a locality within the body of a State connecting with navigable waters although not affected by the ebb and flow of the tide.* See County. Body of an instrument. The substantial operative part; the essential provisions: as, the body of a contract, note, statute, will. See Title, 2. 4. A number of particulars taken together; a systematic collection: as, a body of laws.