 | William Blackstone - Law - 1877 - 640 pages
...consist of one person only and his successors, who are incorporated by law in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had. The sovereign is a sole corporation ; so is a bishop ; so are some... | |
 | Sir John Richard Somers Vine - History - 1879 - 288 pages
...consist of one person only and his successors, and are incorporated by law in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural person they could not have had. Another division of corporations, either sole or aggregate, is into... | |
 | Thomas Moore, T. M. - Anglican Communion - 1881 - 502 pages
...his successors, in some particular station, who are incorporated by law, in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had. In which sense the king is a sole corporation, so is a bishop, so... | |
 | Joseph William Hume-Williams - Municipal corporations - 1882 - 334 pages
...consist of one person only and his successors, and are incorporated by law in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural person they could not have had. Another division of corpoi'ations, either sole or aggregate, is into... | |
 | Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - Law - 1888 - 674 pages
...CORPORATION.— One person and his successors, who are incorporated by law, in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had; as the sovereign, bishop, parson, <fec. 1 Steph. Com. (7 edit.) 858;... | |
 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1891 - 432 pages
...his successors, in some particular station, who are incorporated by law, in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had. In this sense the king is a sole corporation ; so is a bishop ; BO... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...his successors, in some particular station, who are incorporated by law, in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had. In this sense, the king is a sole corporation ; so is a bishop; so... | |
 | Horace La Fayette Wilgus - Corporation law - 1902 - 1252 pages
...successors in some particular station, iL'ho are incorporated bv /era,', in order to give tliem sole legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons tJicv could not have had." In this view the king is a sole corporation; so is a bishop, and... | |
 | Thomas Henry Carson, Harold B. Bompas - Real property - 1902 - 1046 pages
...his successors, in some particular station, who are incorporated by law, in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had. In this sense the king is a corporation sole (Co. Litt. 43). So are... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black - Law - 1910 - 1330 pages
...and his successors In some particular station, who are incorporated by law in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had. In this sense, the sovereign in England is a sole corporation, so... | |
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Corporations sole consist of one person only and his successors, in some particular station, who are incorporated by law, in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they... 
