corporation aggregate

corporation aggregate
A collection of individuals united in one body under a special denomination, and vested by the policy of the law with the capacity of acting in several respects as an individual; a legal institution devised to confer upon the individuals of which it is composed powers, privileges, and immunities which they would not otherwise possess, the most important of which are continuous legal identity, and perpetual or indefinite succession under the corporate name, notwithstanding successive changes by death or otherwise in the corporation or members of the corporation. 18 Am J2d Corp § 1. An artificial body of men, composed of divers constituent members ad instar corporis humanis (after the manner of the human body), the ligaments of which body politic, or artificial body, are the franchises and liberties thereof, which bind and unite all its members together; and in which the whole frame and essence of the corporation consist. Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Railroad Co. v Letson (US) 2 How 497, 552, 11 L Ed 353, 375.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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