CORPORATE

Belonging to a corporation; as a corporate name.,Incorporated; as a corporate body. -Corporate anthoritie■, The title given in statutes of several etates to the aggregate body of officers of a municipal corporation, or to certain of those officers (excluding the others) who are vested with authority in. regard to. the particular. matter spoken of in the statute, e.s, taxation, bonded debt, 'regulation of the sale ot li1111ors. etc. See People v. Knopf, 171 IIL 191. [s. 278]