BODY

A· person. Used of a natural body, or of an, artificial one created by ·Jaw, as a corporation. Also the main part of any instrument; in deeds it is spoken of as distinguished from the recitals and other introductory parts and signatures; in affidavit8, from the title and jurat. The main part of the -human body; the trunk. Sanchez v. People, 22 N. Y. 149; State v. Edmundson, 64 Mo. 402; Walker v. State, 34 Fla. 167, 16 South. 80, 43 Am. St. Rep. 186. ' [s. 147]