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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 359 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INCORPORATION (from See also:Lat. incorporare, to See also:form into a See also:body)  , in See also:law, the embodying or formation of a legal See also:corporation, brought about either by a See also:general See also:rule contained in such See also:laws, e.g. as the Companies acts, and applicable wherever its conditions are satisfied;' or by a See also:special See also:act of See also:sovereign See also:power, e.g. an incorporating See also:statute or See also:charter . The word is used also in the sense of uniting, e.g. a will may incorporate by reference other papers, which may be then taken as See also:part of the will, as much as if they were set out at length in it .

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