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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 359 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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INCORPORATION (from Lat. incorporare, to form into a body)

INCORPORATION (from
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LAT
Lat. incorporare, to
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FORM (Lat. forma)
form into a
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BODY
body) , in

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law, the embodying or formation of a legal

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CORPORATION (from Lat. corporare, to form into a body, corpus, corporis)

corporation, brought about either by a

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RULE

rule contained in such

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LAWS

laws, e.g. as the Companies acts, and applicable wherever its conditions are satisfied;' or by a

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SPECIAL

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ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of

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SOVEREIGN

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POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, e.g. an incorporating

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STATUTE

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CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

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

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PART

part of the will, as much as if they were set out at length in it .

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