body corporate

American  

noun

Law.

1. a person, association, or group of persons legally incorporated; corporation.

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body corporate British  

noun

1. law a group of persons incorporated to carry out a specific enterprise See corporation

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Etymology

Origin of body corporate

First recorded in 1490–1500

Example Sentences

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body corporate

Marsham had pounced upon a weak point in the Consolidated's armor and pierced deep into the body corporate.

From The Rapids by Sullivan, Alan

A man of war, trained from childhood in martial tactics, and in the use of weapons, and of a singular courage and determination, you, Standish, are the strong right arm of the body corporate.

From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)

Where states are connected or united through a justiciary medium, whether that justiciary medium is a person, a body corporate, or a state, all the states are free states, their relationships being governed by law.

From "Colony,"--or "Free State"? "Dependence,"--or "Just Connection"? "Empire,"--or "Union"? by Snow, Alpheus Henry

The body corporate was too fatally diseased to cure itself Rottenness and corruption hung upon its borders, and were slowly sapping the foundations of its life.

From The Nation's Peril Twelve Years' Experience in the South by Anonymous

They are the backbone of the municipal as of the national body corporate.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price