Corporation
a corporate body legally empowered to act as a single individual, and having a common seal. A corporation may be either aggregate or sole. Corporations aggregate consist of two or more persons legally incorporated in a society, which is kept up by a succession of members, either in perpetuity or till the corporation is dissolved. A corporation sole consists of a single individual and his successors, the intention being to perpetuate a function or office, which cannot be done in any man in his personal or bodily capacity.
To render valid a transfer of lands to such a corporation, the phraseology must always include the words "and his successors." In England the king or a bishop is a corporation sole, as the office is immortal though the man may die.
Corporations are liable to the ordinary laws and treaties of the country, but are not citizens in the sense of exercising a political or municipal franchise. United States law has also had occasion to emphasize the distinction between a public corporation which may be affected by legislation, and a private corporation.
Further, according to United States law, the franchises of a corporation are treated as realizable assets for creditors. inherited from his father enabled him, The amount of property which may be however, to follow out the bent of his genius, and the last 25 years of his life were a continuous triumph. He frequently painted figure subjects, including the large sacred pictures, the "Flight Into Egypt" and the "Baptism of Christ"; but his most characeristic and successful work was in landscape. Few artists have been so successful in painting light and air, or in infusing work manifestly closely studied from nature with an ideal charm. He died in Paris, Feb. 23, 1875. held by a corporation in the United States is frequently limited in the act or charter. In the United States less importance is attached to the use of the common seal of a corporation than in Great Britain. In Oregon, Delaware, District of Columbia, South Dakota, and tions Porto Rico the laws affecting corporaare more liberal and the fees smaller than in most other States.
CORPS (kōr), a body; a word often used as a military and a political term. 000 men, but has now been replaced by a United States it formerly numbered 25,- A corps d'armée, or army corps, one of the largest divisions of an army. In the United States it formerly numbered 25,- 000 men, but has now been replaced by a Field Army of two or more divisions under a lieutenant-general. The term was abolished in the British army in for six years in the proportion of one to lower house of the French legislature in 1857-1870. Its members were elected ministers 35,000 electors. lower house of the French legislature in diplomatic characters. 1857-1870. Its members were elected for six years in the proportion of one to 35,000 electors. or can be said to be corpulent, depending, exactly the limit beyond which the body with flesh. It is impossible to define