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- Corporation - n. - A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.
- Municipal - a. - Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers.
- Ulema - n. - A college or corporation in Turkey composed of the hierarchy, namely, the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of justice.
- Appropriator - n. - A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.
- Bondholder - n. - A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.
- Ayuntamiento - n. - In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.
- Direction - n. - The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.
- Coucher - n. - The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.
- Proxy - n. - A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
- Enfranchisement - n. - Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens.
- Incorporate - v. t. - To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc.
- Visitor - - A superior, or a person lawfully appointed for the purpose, who makes formal visits of inspection to a corporation or an institution. See Visit, v. t., 2, and Visitation, n., 2.
- Guildhall - n. - The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.
- Fellow - n. - In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.
- Quo warranto - - A writ brought before a proper tribunal, to inquire by what warrant a person or a corporation acts, or exercises certain powers.
- Bond - n. - An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.
- Corporate - a. - Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.
- Statute - a. - An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.
- Charter - n. - An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.
- By-law - n. - A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government.
- Frankalmoigne - a. - A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms.
- Mandamus - n. - A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty.