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 Chapter Coroner <i>to</i> Corpuscularian of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
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.
Corporations aggregate consist of two or more persons united in a society, which is preserved by a succession of members, either forever or till the corporation is dissolved by the power that formed it, by the death of all its members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or by forfeiture.
Corporations are sometimes classified as public and private; public being convertible with municipal, and private corporations being all corporations not municipal.
www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1194/22280/3.html   (303 words)

  
 ELS - ERD - Law By Country - United States Substantive Law - Georgia Constitution
Paragraph I. Counties a body corporate and politic.
Each county shall be a body corporate and politic with such governing authority and with such powers and limitations as are provided in this Constitution and as provided by law.
The governing authority of any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of this state may provide for the refunding of outstanding bonded indebtedness without the necessity of a referendum being held therefor, provided that neither the term of the original debt is extended nor the interest rate of the original debt is increased.
www.law.emory.edu /GEORGIA/gaconst/art-9.html   (4254 words)

  
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A corporation was then, as now, a group of individuals authorized by law to act as a unit, though the term was extended to include corporations sole (as well as corporations aggregate), in which the corporation consisted of an individual and his successors.
And unless a would-be corporation had been "created" or "erected" in due form and by a competent authority, its position was at all times subject to attack, and it was liable to be suddenly and ruthlessly shorn of the powers and privileges it was enjoying.
In the first place, while the word "incorporate" or a derivative (though seldom "corporation") is occasionally to be found in the language of these acts, they do not specifically purport to create a "corporation" or "body corporate and politic," or to confer the privileges customarily accorded a corporation.
www.ecn.bris.ac.uk /het/davisjoe/corps   (9421 words)

  
 Section 9-10A-2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A governmental subdivision of this state and a public body, corporate and politic, organized in accordance with the provisions of this chapter for the purposes, with the powers and subject to the restrictions set forth in this chapter.
The governing body of the soil and water conservation district in which a watershed management authority is situated or, if the watershed management authority is situated in more than one soil and water conservation district, the joint governing bodies of such districts.
A governmental subdivision of this state and a public body corporate and politic organized in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of Title 9, for the purposes, with the powers and subject to the restrictions, set forth in said article.
www.legislature.state.al.us /codeofalabama/1975/9-10A-2.htm   (246 words)

  
 Advisory Legal Opinion - Child Care Executive Partnership
A corporation is public when created for public purposes only, connected with the administration of government, and where the whole interests and franchises are the exclusive property and domain of the government itself.
Municipal corporations embrace incorporated cities, villages, and towns which are full-fledged corporations with all the powers, duties, and liabilities incident to such status, while public quasi corporations possess only a portion of the powers, duties, and liabilities of corporations.
The Court distinguished between private corporations that have no official duties or concern with the affairs of government, are voluntarily organized and are not bound to perform any act solely for government benefit, and public corporations that are organized for the benefit of the public.
myfloridalegal.com /ago.nsf/printview/0B99E04895D493C085256D3D0057277B   (1384 words)

  
 The Corporate States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An aggregate corporation is an ideal body, created by =law, composed of individuals united under a common name, the members =of which succeed each other, so that the body continues the same, =notwithstanding the changes of the individuals who compose it, and =which for certain purposes is considered as a natural person.
[T]he other is a body politic, and the =members thereof are his subjects, and he and his subjects together =compose the corporation, as Southcote said, and he is incorporated =with them and they with him, and he is the head and they are the =members.
And these are, the kingメs majesty, sitting there in his royal =political capacity, and the three estates of the realm; the lords =spiritual, the lords temporal, (who sit, together with the king, in =one house) and the commons, who sit by themselves in another.
www.seriousliving.net /new-4565222-1077.html   (3576 words)

  
 Housing Authorities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An organization has separate legal standing if it is created as a body corporate or a body corporate and politic, or if it otherwise possesses the corporate powers that would distinguish it as being legally separate from the primary government.
Generally, corporate powers give an organization the capacity to have a name; the right to sue and be sued in its own name without recourse to a state or local governmental unit; and the right to buy, sell, lease, and mortgage property in its own name.
OCGA 8-3-30 (a)(10) provides for the assets of any subsidiary corporation of the authority to revert to the city or the county, as applicable, upon dissolution of the subsidiary corporation (failing reversion to the authority or to any successor to the authority).
www.audits.state.ga.us /internet/nalgad/housing.html   (945 words)

  
 TITLE 15: CHAPTER 2 - ARTICLE 1 - IN GENERAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The governing body when organized is a body corporate and politic with perpetual succession, to be known by the name designated and is capable of suing and being sued and of pleading and being impleaded in all courts and places.
Unless otherwise provided by ordinance, the clerk, treasurer, marshal, attorney, municipal judge and  department heads as specified by ordinance shall be appointed by the mayor with the consent of the governing body and may be removed by the mayor for incompetency or neglect of duty.
The governing body shall fix the salaries for the mayor and councilmen in towns not operating under the commission or city manager form of government.
legisweb.state.wy.us /statutes/titles/title15/c02a01.htm   (531 words)

  
 League of Wisconsin Municipalities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
State or local bodies created by "rule or order" are also included in the definition of "governmental body." The phrase "rule or order" has been liberally construed by the Wisconsin Attorney General to include any directive, formal or informal, creating a body and assigning it duties.
This includes resolutions and motions adopted by governing bodies and directives from presiding officers of governmental bodies, or certain governmental officials, such as county executives, mayors, or heads of a state or local agency or department.
The chief presiding officer of the governmental body is responsible for providing notice, and when he or she is aware of matters which may come before the body, those matters must be included in the meeting notice.
www.lwm-info.org /legal/faq/faq10.html   (4338 words)

  
 Body Corporate.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Nations or states, are denominated by publicists, bodies politic, and are said to have their affairs and interests, and to deliberate and resolve, in common.
The corporation is a fiction of law in that it has NO existence outside of the law existing only on legal paper and in concept, it has no mind nor soul.
A corporation is a specific mode of organization that establishes a legal entity SEPARATE form its member(s) as you have already admitted to.
www.seriousliving.net /new-3361224-1076.html   (7324 words)

  
 wiki/Body politic Definition / wiki/Body politic Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Body politic or body corporate and politic means a stateIn international law and international relations, a state is a geographic political entity possessing politicial sovereignty, i.e.
Although it is generally applied to governments, politics is also observed in all human group interactions including corporate, academic, and religious.
Political science is the study of political behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e.
www.elresearch.com /wiki/Body_politic   (537 words)

  
 Corporate Canada - A Constitutional Monarchy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Corporate Canada - A Constitutional Monarchy The most important and key thing to remember when it comes to "Canada" or the "United States of America" and their laws is that at law, we are dealing with CORPORATIONS, ARTIFICIAL/FICTITIOUS LEGAL ENTITIES, INVISIBLE BODIES.
STATE OF TENNESSEE, 117 U.S. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=117&invol=151#154 "In the words of Chief Justice MARSHALL: 'The United States is a government, and consequently a body politic and corporate, capable of attaining the objects for which it was created, by the means which are necessary for their attainment.
Berkley (1559), cited in Frederick Maitland, The Crown as Corporation, 17 ---------- Under the English Common Law of the Kingdom, in a constitutional monarchy, attached to the natural body of a King or Queen is a BODY POLITIC that is, a CORPORATION.
www.talkabouttaxes.com /group/misc.taxes/messages/230157.html   (6372 words)

  
 School district   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Although the operation of public primary, middle, and secondary schools is by some considered to be more properly an executive function of government, public education in many communities in the USA has been made the function of a school district serving one or more towns.
A school district is a unique body corporate and politic, usually with standing before the law coequal to that of a city or a county, and has similar powers including taxation and eminent domain.
Its legislative body, elected by direct popular vote, is called a school board or board of trustees, and this body appoints a superintendent, usually a highly qualified teacher, to function as the district's chief executive for carrying out day-to-day decisions and policy implementations.
mywiseowl.com /articles/School_district   (303 words)

  
 NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP /NY/ - NMPWM Annual Report (10-K) EXHIBIT 4
The Corporation additionally represents and warrants that the representations and warranties of the Corporation set forth in the Supplemental Tax Regulatory Agreement are true and correct in all material respects as of the date hereof and as of the Effective Date.
In order to evidence the obligation of the Corporation to the Authority to repay the advance of the proceeds of the Bonds, the Authority hereby directs the Corporation, and the Corporation hereby agrees, to deliver or cause to be delivered the First Mortgage Bonds to the Trustee on the Effective Date.
In addition, the Corporation shall wire to the State of New York on the Effective Date a bond issuance charge fee applicable to the Bonds pursuant to Section 2976 of the Public Authorities Law of the State of New York in the amount specified by such section on the Effective Date.
sec.edgar-online.com /2004/06/29/0000071297-04-000042/section34.asp   (2297 words)

  
 Big Med Rx: Corporate Gene Therapies
Corporations' current DNA -- the tangle of codes and charters that determine their structure, development and behavior -- has been carefully crafted to ensure that corporate bodies are both internally tyrannic and externally blind to the effects of their rapacity on the social or natural surround.
Bob Hinkley is a savvy, sensitive (and thus self-defrocked) corporate lawyer who suddenly realized that even the most virtuous corporate directors cannot reform their organization's behavior, because it is literally illegal.
Current corporate codes dictate that they can be fired or sued by shareholders for not maximizing their profits at all costs - and those costs are universally "externalized" at the expense of neighbors, Nature and generations yet unborn.
www.nancho.net /bigdna   (549 words)

  
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Special meetings of any multiple-member body shall be held on the call of the respective chairman or by one-third of the members thereof by written notice delivered in hand or to the residence or place of business of each member at least twenty-four hours in advance of the time set.
Special meetings of any multiple-member body shall also be called within one week after the date of the filing with the city clerk of a petition signed by at least one hundred fifty voters and which states the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is to be called.
The multiple-member body may, upon such receipt, by vote, refer such matters to a sub-committee, or to a paid employee for negotiation, solicitation or further information, or otherwise, to report back to the full multiple-member body before any final action is taken on the matter.
www.gloucester-ma.gov /localpages/cityclerk/city-ordinance.htm   (13027 words)

  
 TITLE 18: CHAPTER 2 - Corporate Powers and Duties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
(a) Each organized county in the state is a body corporate and politic.
The composition of the advisory commission, the appointment and terms of its members and provisions for its organization and procedures shall be determined by the board of county commissioners.
A member may be removed for cause by the board of county commissioners or other appointing body.
legisweb.state.wy.us /statutes/titles/title18/chapter02.htm   (1093 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
Body politic or '''body corporate and politic''' means a state or one of its subordinate civil authorities, such as a province, prefecture, county, municipality, city or district.
In olden times ''body politic'' was also understood to mean the physical person of an emperor, monarch king, dictator, etc.
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Body politic.
www.mauspfeil.net /Body_politic.html   (149 words)

  
 Who Is Running America? The Corporate USA And The New World Order
Since the United States Corporation, having established its headquarters within the District of Columbia, declared itself to be in the state of bankruptcy, it automatically declared bankruptcy for all its subsidiaries who were effectively connected corporate members (who happened to be the corporate state governments of the Union).
Corporate public policy is forever a Corporate public policy and the laws that have passed since 1938 are all corporate public policy laws dealing only with corporate public policy.
Because when you, as a member of the corporate body politic allow laws to be passed which says the minorities must be taken care of, then the corporate legislature can say the public policy is that the people want these people taken care of.
www.rense.com /general3/who.htm   (10729 words)

  
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(a)(1) Each public body corporate and politic shall be administered and governed by a board of directors, with each director residing within the jurisdiction of the public agency which he or she represents.
Each director shall be appointed by the governing body of the public agency which he or she represents, with all vacancies being likewise filled within 45 days.
Each public body corporate and politic created pursuant to this subchapter will be performing functions and will be a public instrumentality of the participating public agencies.
www.arkleg.state.ar.us /ftproot/Bills/1995/HTM/HB1695.HTM   (852 words)

  
 City Bus Improvement Districts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is not given the corporate powers that would distinguish it as being legally separate from the primary government.
The corporate powers granted to a separate organization are enumerated in its coporate charter or in the legislation authorizing its creation.
A special-purpose government (or any other organization) that is not legally separate should be considered, for financial reporting purposes, part of the primary government that holds the corporate powers.
www.audits.state.ga.us /internet/nalgad/citybus.html   (310 words)

  
 Body politic Definition / Body politic Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In olden times body politic was additionally understood to mean the physical person of an emperorAn emperor is a monarch and sovereign ruler of an empire or any other imperial realm.
(a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land")
body politic is the perception and elaboration of correspondences between society or the state and the individual human body.
www.elresearch.com /Body_politic   (296 words)

  
 Polity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - TESTVERSION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Polity is a general term that refers to political organization of a group.
It is often used to describe a loosely organized society such as a tribe or community, but can mean any political group including a government or empire.
Polity is also used to decribe religious political organizations, particularly Christian.
www.wissen-im-web.net /wiki/Polity   (159 words)

  
 6-404 - General corporate powers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An association operating under this chapter shall be a body corporate and politic and shall have all of the specific powers conferred by this chapter and as provided for under the general laws of this state and, in addition to these powers, the following powers:
To obtain and maintain insurance of the association's accounts by an insurance corporation, as defined in this chapter, and to comply with all the regulations and requirements of such insurance corporation.
To become a member of a federal home loan bank and to have all powers of such a member which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.
www.azleg.state.az.us /ars/6/00404.htm   (247 words)

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