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[Lat. corp or at us = shaped or formed into a body, from corpus =a body.] 1. United in a body, community, or corporation; legally competent to transact busine as an individual; having a corporation; incorporated. IMG:content-0998.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] 1128 sole. Corporations aggregate consist of two or more persons legally incorporated in a society, which is kept up by a succe ion of members, either in per petuity or until the corporation is di olved. A corporation sole consists of a single individual and his succe ors, the intention being to perpetuate a function or office, which cannot be done in any man in his personal or bodily capacity. Thus in Ma achusetts certain church property is vested in a corporation sole composed of the pastor of the church. To render valid a transfer of lands to such a corporation, the phraseology must always include the words "and his succe ors." In England the king or a bishop is a corporation sole , as the office is immortal though the man may die. Corporation Act, s. Eng . Law : The Act 13 Chas. II., § 2, c. i., pa ed in 1661, under which no person was allowed to hold any office in any city or corporation in England unle he had within the twelve months preceding received the Sacrament according to the rites of the Church of England. It is generally coupled with the Test Act, pa ed on March 29, 1673, under the name of the Test and Corporation Acts. Both were repealed on May 9, 1828, public opinion having for some time previously been so much against them that their operation was annually suspended by a Bill of Indemnity. leave was given to bring in a bill repealing the Corporation Act , which had been pa ed by the Cava lier Parliament soon after the Restoration, and which contained a clause requiring all municipal magistrates to receive the sacrament according to the forms of the Church of England." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xi.