quasi-public corporation

quasi-public corporation
A public service corporation; a corporation affected with a public interest. 18 Am J2d Corp § 9. A private corporation which has been given certain powers of a public nature, such as the power of eminent domain. Philadelphia Rural Transit Co. v Philadelphia, 309 Pa 84, 159 A 861. A corporation having an appropriate franchise from the state to provide for a necessity or convenience of the general public incapable of being furnished by private competitive business. Atty. Gen. v Haverhill Gaslight Co. 215 Mass 394, 101 NE 1061.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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