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Lay Corporation

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

A corporation composed of lay persons, or for lay purposes. Angell & A. Corp. 28-80; 1 Bl. Comm. 470. According to the line of demarcation tions." They are created for a variety of temporal or secular purposes, and are according to their object either eleemosynary or civil. 1 Fletcher Cyclopedia Corporations 85.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A nonreligious corporation.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

See Corporation.

Defined under Lay in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A corporation composed of lay persons or for lay purposes. They are cither civil or eleemosynary. Ang. & A. Corp. 28-30; 1 Bl. Comm. 470.