Law Dictionary

Corporate franchises are legal estates vested in the corporation itself as soon as it is in esse. They are not mere naked powers granted to the corporation, but powers coupled with

On the one hand, the plaintiff cannot recover without departing from the fundamental conception embodied in the law that created it,—the conception that a corporation remains uncha

For acts done by the agents of a corporation, either in contractu or in delicto, in the course of its business, and of their employment, the corporation is responsible, as an indiv

When a corporation is erected, a name is always given to it, or, supposing none to be actually given, will attach to it by implication, and by that name alone it must sue and be su

Where the appropriation of the corporate name is complete, the rule of the statute, by its own terms, is absolute, and the proposed mark must be denied registration, without more;

the power thus cautiously granted, is deposited with the corporation itself, without an indication that it is assignable. It is to be exercised, like other corporate powers, by the

There is a difference between those rights on which the validity of the transactions of the corporation depends, which must adhere to those transactions every where, and those pecu

In reference to municipal corporations, and especially to their powers of taxation, a "corporate purpose" is one which shall promote the general prosperity and the welfare of the m

A corporation cannot change its residence or its citizenship. It can have its legal home only at the place where it is located by or under the authority of its charter; but it may

the acts of such body or board, evidenced by a written vote, are as completely binding upon the corporation, and as complete authority to their agents, as the most solemn acts done

any corporation, joint-stock company, partnership, association, business trust, organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not, or a receiver or receivers, trustee or trus

In English law. The statute 13 Car. II. St. 2, c. 1; by which it was provided that no person should thereafter be elected to office in any corporate town that should not, within on

A corporation aggregate retains its identity through all the changes that may take place in its individual membership.

That corporations are, in law, for civil purposes, deemed persons, is unquestionable. And the citation from 2 Inst. 736 establishes, that they are so deemed within the purview of p

When a government enters into a contract, there is no doubt of its power to bind itself to any extent not prohibited by its constitution. A Corporation can make such contracts only

The term “corporation concerned” means— (A) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, with respect to matters relating to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and (B) the Re

Certain courts in Virginia described as follows: "For each city of the sinte, there shall be a court called a 'corporation court,' to be held by a judge, with like qualifications a

it was still a body corporate de facto, exercising at least one of the franchises which the legislature attempted to confer upon it, and in such a case the party who makes a sale o

One whose right to exercise a corporate function is proof against quo warranto proceedings. See 40 Neb. 470, 24 L. R. A. 259.

the term embraces those which have powers and privileges analogous to those of private corporations and not possessed by individuals or partnerships. Municipal corporations have su

In English law. Those which have existed beyond the memory of man, and therefore are looked upon in law to be well created, such as the city of London.

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

The act of 1909 was not in any proper sense an income tax law, nor intended as such, but was an excise upon the conduct of business in a corporate capacity, the tax being measured

A member of a corporation. CORPORE ET ANIiMO. See "Anlmo et Corpore." CORPOREAL HEREDITAiWENTS. Substantial, permanent objects which may be inherited. The term "land" will include

Having substance; tangible.

Such inheritable property as may be perceived by the senses, e. g., land. See 2 Bl. Comm. 19.

—In Civil Law. That which consists of such subjects as are palpable. In Common Law. The term to signify the same thing is "property in possession.'' It differs from incorporeal pro

In body and mind.

The terms “Corps” and “Public Lands Corps” mean the Public Lands Corps established by section 1723(a)(1) of this title . / In this section, the term “Corps” means the Contingency C

The term “Corps campus” means the facility or central location established as the operational headquarters and boarding place for particular Corps units.

The body of ambassadors and diplomatic persons. Whiarton.

The dead body of a human being. 1 Russ. & R. 366, note; 2 Term R. 733; 1 Leach, C. C. 497; 8 Pick. (Mass.) 370; Dig. 47. 12. 3. 7; Id. 11. 7. 38; Code, 3. 44. 1. CORPUS (Lat. a bod

The term “Corps member” means each of the officers, employees, and individuals of which the Corps consists pursuant to paragraph (1).

The term “Corps members” means persons receiving training and participating in projects under the National Civilian Community Corps Program.

the term “corpus” means, with respect to a trust, all property and other interests held by the trust, including accumulated earnings and any other addition to the trust after its e

In English law. A feast instituted in 1264, in honor of the sacrament. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 2L Corpus humanum non recipit aestimationem. The human body does not admit of valuation. Hob

In old English law. The body,of a county. Cro. Jac. 514; 5 How. (U. S.) 453; 5 Mason (U. S.) 290. The county at large, as distinguished from any particular locality within it.

A corporation.

See "Habeas Corpus."

In order to convict of serious crimes of violence, then capital offenses, independent proof was required that someone had indeed inflicted the violence, the so-called corpus delict

The human body is not susceptible of valuation.

A body of law. A term used to signify a book comprehending several collections of law. There are two principal collections to which this name is given; the Corpus Juris Civilis, an

The decrees of the Roman church.

The whole body of the Roman law, being the Digest, the Institutes, the Code and the Novellae of Justinian.

The term “corpus of the estate of the veteran” includes the corpus of the estates of the veteran's spouse and dependent children, if any.

In old records. Body for body. A phrase expressing the liability of manucaptors. 3 How. State Tr. 110.

a court cannot allow a habeas applicant to evade § 2254(e)(1) by attacking the process employed by the state "factfinder" rather than the actual "factfindings.

For purposes of this subsection, the term “corrected error” means a reasonable administrative error— (A) (i) made in implementing an automatic enrollment or automatic escalation fe

The terms “correction” and “correct” mean, with respect to any act of self-dealing, undoing the transaction to the extent possible, but in any case placing the private foundation i

HOUSE OF. A pris on for the reformation of petty or juvenile offenders.

The term “correctional facility” means any jail, prison, or any other penal or detention facility operated by a State, local, Tribal, or territorial law enforcement agency, or by a

"correctional facility project" means a project for the construction, replacement, alteration or expansion of a prison or jail for the purpose of relieving overcrowding o

“correctional institution” means any— (A) prison, (B) jail, (C) reformatory, (D) work farm, (E) detention center, or (F) halfway house, community-based rehabilitation center, or an

The term "correctional job training or placement program" means an activity that provides job training or job placement services to incarcerated persons or ex-offenders,

the term "correctional officer" means a correctional officer of the Bureau of Prisons;

"correctional option" includes community-based incarceration, weekend incarceration, boot camp prison, electronic monitoring of offenders, intensive probation, and any ot

For purposes of paragraph (1), the term “correction amount” means an amount equal to the excess credit amount divided by 0.25.

A prison for the reformation of petty or juvenile offenders.

The term “correction period” means— (i) the period, ending 270 days after the date of mailing by the Secretary of a notice of default with respect to the plan’s failure to meet one

In this section, the term “Corrections Board” means— (1) with respect to the Department of the Army, the Army Board for Correction of Military Records; (2) with respect to the Depa

For purposes of this subsection, the term "correction window" means the period of time beginning on the date on which the tax under subsection (a) is imposed with respect

The term “corrective action” has the meaning given that term under section 3004(u) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act ( 42 U.S.C. 6924(u) ). / In this subsection, the term "corre

The term “corrective actions” has the meaning given such term by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under section 6924(u) of this title.

The term "corrective and preventive maintenance or repair" means— (i) maintenance or repair actions performed as a result of a failure in order to return or restore equip

In old English law. A clerk belonging to the staple, to write and record the bargains of merchants there made.

Lat. A corody. Spelman. See Corodium, CORREL Lat. In the civil law. Costipulators; joint stipulators. Hsinecc. JEl, Jur. Civ, lib. 3, tit. 17. Hallifax Anal, b. 2, ch. 16. See Reus

fi\ In old French and Canadian law. An obligation, on the part of a tenant, to perform involuntary labor at the requirement of the lord.

In Spanish law. A magistrate who took cognizance of various misdemeanors, and of civil matters. 2 White, New Recop. 53.

In civil law. Two or more bound or secured by the same obligation. Correi credendi are creditors secured by the same obligation. Correi debendi are two or more persons bound as pri

Joint creditors.

Joint debtors.

Lat. In Scotch law. Two or more persons bound as principal debtors to ano Uier. Ersk, Inst, b. 8, tit. 3, § 74.

The term “correlated color temperature” means the absolute temperature of a blackbody whose chromaticity most nearly resembles that of the light source.

Having a mutual or reciprocal relation, in such sense that the existence of one necessarily implies the existence of the other. Father and son are correlative terms. Right and duty

The letters written by one person to another, and the answer thereto. See "Letter."

The terms “correspondent account” and “payable-through account” have the meanings given those terms in section 5318A of title 31 . / The terms “account”, “correspondent account”, a

The term “corresponding onshore area” means, with respect to any OCS source, the onshore attainment or nonattainment area that is closest to the source, unless the Administrator de

The term “corridor” means a corridor designated by the Secretary pursuant to section 104(d)(2) 1 of title 23.

Corridor-based bus rapid transit project.—The term "corridor-based bus rapid transit project" means a small start project utilizing buses in which the project represents

In evidence. To sustain by the introduction of other evidence to the same mact Corroborative evidence is "such evidence as tends in some degree of CORRUPTIO OPTIMI EST PESSIMAi Cor

See Circumstances; Evidence.

Evidence supplementary to that already given and tending to strengthen or confirm it; additional evidence of a different character to the same point. Gild-ersleeve v. Atkinson, 6 N

the corroborative evidence suffices if it shows a substantial deficiency for the over-all prosecution period. It provides substantial evidence that the crime or crimes of tax evasi

the corroborative evidence need not be sufficient, independent of the statements, to establish the corpus delicti. It is necessary, therefore, to require the Government to introduc

a conviction must rest upon firmer ground than the uncorroborated admission or confession of the accused

The general rule that an accused may not be convicted on his own uncorroborated confession... Its purpose is to prevent 'errors in convictions based upon untrue confessions alone';

Two elements must enter into a determination that corroborative evidence is sufficient: (1) that the evidence, if true, substantiates the testimony of a single witness who has swor

I I. In old English law. A corody.

The term “corrosion” means the deterioration of a material or its properties due to a reaction of that material with its chemical environment.

In this section, the term “corrosion prevention activities” means— (1) the application and inspection of protective coatings for complex work involving steel and cementitious struc

The term “corrosive” means any substance which in contact with living tissue will cause destruction of tissue by chemical action; but shall not refer to action on inanimate surface

I. In the civil law. To corrupt; to spoil; to make worse. Applied to the offense of taaipering with another's slave.

1. To taint, vitiate: as, to corrupt the blood, q. v. 3. To do an act for unlawful gain. Corruption. An act done with intent to gain an advantage not consistent with official duty

The term "corrupt actor" means— (A) any foreign person or entity that is a government official or government entity responsible for, or complicit in, an act of corruption

A British act of 18S3 and supplements forbid certain acts in connection with Parliamentary elections, chiefly bribery, treating, undue influence and personation. Such acts are made

The term "corruption" means the unlawful exercise of entrusted public power for private gain, including by bribery, nepotism, fraud, or embezzlement.

The incapacity to inherit, or pass an inheritance, in consequence of an attainder to which the party has been subject.

Corruption of the best is the worst. See 221 U. S. 263, 55 L. Ed. 729, 31 Sup. Ct. Rep. 555.

Unlawfully; corruptly.

I In old English law. Corruption; violation or defilement of the person.