body corporate
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of body corporate
First recorded in 1490–1500
Example Sentences
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The Church, like every body corporate, may alter her laws without changing her identity.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Not content with this, the body corporate of the old cadets had ordered that no neux should speak to the culprit, and, in addition, he was daily placed in arrest and turned out to drill.
From The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich by A.W. Drayson
The king's household has not only several strong traces of this feudality, but it is formed also upon the principles of a body corporate: it has its own magistrates, courts, and by-laws.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
The connecting medium may be a person, a body corporate, or a state.
From "Colony,"--or "Free State"? "Dependence,"--or "Just Connection"? "Empire,"--or "Union"? by Alpheus Henry Snow
A body corporate, with the infection of passion, may perform acts of injustice equally with the individual who abuses the power with which he is invested.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
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