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corporation
(mass) | corporation
- združenie |
corporation
(encz) | corporation,firma n: Zdeněk Brož |
corporation
(encz) | corporation,korporace n: Zdeněk Brož |
corporation
(encz) | corporation,obchodní společnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
corporation
(encz) | corporation,sdružení n: Zdeněk Brož |
corporation
(encz) | corporation,společenství n: RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
corporation
(encz) | corporation,společnost n: Pavel Machek; Giza |
corporation
(encz) | corporation,zastupitelstvo n: Zdeněk Brož |
Corporation
(gcide) | Corporation \Cor`po*ra"tion\ (k[^o]r`p[-o]*r[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
[L. corporatio incarnation: cf. F. corporation corporation.]
A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to
act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity
of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting
business as an individual.
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Note: Corporations are aggregate or sole. {Corporations
aggregate} consist of two or more persons united in a
society, which is preserved by a succession of members,
either forever or till the corporation is dissolved by
the power that formed it, by the death of all its
members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or
by forfeiture. Such corporations are the mayor and
aldermen of cities, the head and fellows of a college,
the dean and chapter of a cathedral church, the
stockholders of a bank or insurance company, etc. A
corporation sole consists of a single person, who is
made a body corporate and politic, in order to give him
some legal capacities, and especially that of
succession, which as a natural person he can not have.
Kings, bishops, deans, parsons, and vicars, are in
England sole corporations. A fee will not pass to a
corporation sole without the word "successors" in the
grant. There are instances in the United States of a
minister of a parish seized of parsonage lands in the
right of his parish, being a corporation sole, as in
Massachusetts. Corporations are sometimes classified as
public and private; public being convertible with
municipal, and private corporations being all
corporations not municipal.
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Close corporation. See under Close.
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corporation
(wn) | corporation
n 1: a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been
approved in some state [syn: corporation, corp]
2: slang for a paunch [syn: pot, potbelly, bay window,
corporation, tummy] |
corporation
(devil) | CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit
without individual responsibility.
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CORPORATION
(bouvier) | CORPORATION. An aggregate corporation is an ideal body, created by law,
composed of individuals united under a common name, the members of which
succeed each other, so that the body continues the same, notwithstanding the
changes of the individuals who compose it, and which for certain purposes is
considered as a natural person. Browne's Civ. Law, 99; Civ. Code of Lo. art.
418; 2 Kent's Com. 215. Mr. Kyd, (Corpor. vol. 1, p. 13,) defines a
corporation as follows: "A corporation, or body politic, or body
incorporate, is a collection of many; individuals united in one body, under
a special denomination, having perpetual succession under an artificial
form, and vested by the policy of the law, with a capacity of acting in
several respects as an individual, particularly of taking and granting
property, contracting obligations, and of suing and being sued; of enjoying
privileges and immunities in common, and of exercising a variety of
political rights, more or less extensive, according to the design of its
institution, or the powers conferred upon it, either at the time of its
creation, or at any subsequent period of its existence." In the case of
Dartmouth College against Woodward, 4 Wheat. Rep. 626, Chief Justice
Marshall describes a corporation to be "an artificial being, invisible,
intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere
creature of law," continues the judge, "it possesses only those properties
which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as
incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best
calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most
important are immortality, and if the expression may be allowed,
individuality properties by which a perpetual succession of many persons are
considered, as the same, and may act as the single individual, They enable a
corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold property without the
perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity of perpetual
conveyance for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is
chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these
qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented, and are in use."
See 2 Bl. Corn. 37.
2. The words corporation and incorporation are frequently confounded,
particularly in the old books. The distinction between them is, however,
obvious; the one is the institution itself, the other the act by which the
institution is created.
3. Corporations are divided into public and private.
4. Public corporations, which are also called political, and sometimes
municipal corporations, are those which have for their object the government
of a portion of the state; Civil Code of Lo. art. 420 and although in such
case it involves some private interests, yet, as it is endowed with a
portion of political power, the term public has been deemed appropriate.
5. Another class of public corporations are those which are founded for
public, though not for political or municipal purposes, and the, whole
interest in which belongs to the government. The Bank of Philadelphia, for
example, if the whole stock belonged exclusively to the government, would be
a public corporation; but inasmuch as there are other owners of the stock,
it is a private corporation. Domat's Civil Law, 452 4 Wheat. R. 668; 9
Wheat. R. 907 8 M'Cord's R. 377 1 Hawk's R. 36; 2 Kent's Corn. 222.
6. Nations or states, are denominated by publicists, bodies politic,
and are said to have their affairs and interests, and to deliberate and
resolve, in common. They thus become as moral persons, having an
understanding and will peculiar to themselves, and are susceptible of
obligations and laws. Vattel, 49. In this extensive sense the United States
may be termed a corporation; and so may each state singly. Per Iredell, J. 3
Dall. 447.
7. Private corporations. In the popular meaning of the term, nearly
every corporation is public, inasmuch as they are created for the public
benefit; but if the whole interest does not belong to the government, or if
the corporation is not created for the administration of political or
municipal power, the corporation is private. A bank, for instance, may be
created by the government for its own uses; but if the stock is owned by
private persons, it is a private corporation, although it is created by the
government, and its operations partake of a private nature. 9 Wheat. R. 907.
The rule is the same in the case of canal, bridge, turnpike, insurance
companies, and the like. Charitable or literary corporations, founded by
private benefaction, are in point of law private corporations, though
dedicated to public charity, or for the general promotion of learning. Ang.
& Ames on Corp. 22.
8. Private corporations are divided into ecclesiastical and lay.
9. Ecclesiastical corporations, in the United States, are commonly
called religious corporations they are created to enable religious societies
to manage with more facility and advantage, the temporalities belonging to
the church or congregation.
10. Lay corporations are divided into civil and eleemosynary. Civil
corporations are created for an infinite variety of temporal purposes, such
as affording facilities for obtaining loans of money; the making of canals,
turnpike roads, and the like. And also such as are established for the
advancement of learning. 1 Bl. Com. 471.
11. Eleemosynary corporations are such as are instituted upon a
principle of charity, their object being the perpetual distribution of the
bounty of the founder of them, to such persons as he has directed. Of this
kind are hospitals for the relief of the impotent, indigent and sick, or
deaf and dumb. 1 Kyd on Corp. 26; 4 Conn. R. 272; Angell & A. on Corp. 26.
12. Corporations, considered in another point of view, are either sole
or aggregate.
13. A sole corporation, as its name implies, consists of only one
person, to whom and his successors belongs that legal perpetuity, the
enjoyment of which is denied to all natural persons. 1 Black Com. 469. Those
corporations are not common in the United States. In those states, however,
where the religious establishment of the church of England was adopted, when
they were colonies, together with the common law on that subject, the
minister of the parish was seised of the freehold, as persona ecclesiae, in
the same manner as in England; and the right of his successors to the
freehold being thus established was not destroyed by the abolition of the
regal government, nor can it be divested even by an act of the state
legislature. 9 Cranch, 828.
14. A sole corporation cannot take personal property in succession; its
corporate capacity of taking property is confined altogether to real estate.
9 Cranch, 43.
15. An aggregate corporation consists of several persons, who are'
united in one society, which is continued by a succession of members. Of
this kind are the mayor or commonalty of a city; the heads and fellows of a
college; the members of trading companies, and the like. 1 Kyd on Corp. 76;
2 Kent's Com. 221 Ang. & A. on Corp. 20. See, generally, Bouv. Inst. Index,
h.t.
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| | podobné slovo | definícia |
corporation
(mass) | corporation
- združenie |
aggregate corporation
(encz) | aggregate corporation,korporace tvořená více členy |
bbc (british broadcasting corporation)
(encz) | BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation),britská rozhlasová a televizní
společnost n: [zkr.] Petr Prášek |
business corporation
(encz) | business corporation,obchodní korporace Zdeněk Brož |
certificate of incorporation
(encz) | certificate of incorporation, n: |
close corporation
(encz) | close corporation, n: |
closed corporation
(encz) | closed corporation, n: |
closely held corporation
(encz) | closely held corporation, n: |
commodity credit corporation
(encz) | Commodity Credit Corporation,úvěrová komoditní organizace [ekon.] RNDr.
Pavel Piskač |
corporation
(encz) | corporation,firma n: Zdeněk Brožcorporation,korporace n: Zdeněk Brožcorporation,obchodní společnost n: Zdeněk Brožcorporation,sdružení n: Zdeněk Brožcorporation,společenství n: RNDr. Pavel Piskačcorporation,společnost n: Pavel Machek; Gizacorporation,zastupitelstvo n: Zdeněk Brož |
corporation law
(encz) | corporation law, n: |
corporation tax
(encz) | corporation tax,daň ze zisku korporací Mgr. Dita Gálová |
corporations
(encz) | corporations,korporace pl. Zdeněk Brožcorporations,společnosti n: Zdeněk Brožcorporations,spolky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
federal deposit insurance corporation
(encz) | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, |
foreign-owned corporation
(encz) | foreign-owned corporation, |
government corporation
(encz) | government corporation, |
holding corporation
(encz) | holding corporation, |
incorporation
(encz) | incorporation,inkorporace n: Zdeněk Brožincorporation,sloučení n: Zdeněk Brožincorporation,včlenění n: Zdeněk Brožincorporation,vtělení n: Zdeněk Brožincorporation,začlenění n: Zdeněk Brožincorporation,zahrnutí n: Zdeněk Brož |
incorporation expenses
(encz) | incorporation expenses,zřizovací výdaje [ekon.] rozvaha/balance
sheet Ivan Masár |
international finance corporation
(encz) | International Finance Corporation,Mezinárodní peněžní
korporace [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
non profit-making organization (corporation)
(encz) | non profit-making organization (corporation),nezisková
organizace [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
parent corporation
(encz) | parent corporation, |
private corporation
(encz) | private corporation, n: |
privately held corporation
(encz) | privately held corporation, n: |
public corporation
(encz) | public corporation,veřejná korporace Zdeněk Brož |
public service corporation
(encz) | public service corporation, |
public-service corporation
(encz) | public-service corporation, n: |
reincorporation
(encz) | reincorporation, |
shell corporation
(encz) | shell corporation, n: |
state-owned corporation
(encz) | state-owned corporation, |
trust corporation
(encz) | trust corporation, n: |
canadian broadcasting corporation
(czen) | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,CBC[zkr.] PetrV |
Close corporation
(gcide) | Corporation \Cor`po*ra"tion\ (k[^o]r`p[-o]*r[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
[L. corporatio incarnation: cf. F. corporation corporation.]
A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to
act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity
of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting
business as an individual.
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Note: Corporations are aggregate or sole. {Corporations
aggregate} consist of two or more persons united in a
society, which is preserved by a succession of members,
either forever or till the corporation is dissolved by
the power that formed it, by the death of all its
members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or
by forfeiture. Such corporations are the mayor and
aldermen of cities, the head and fellows of a college,
the dean and chapter of a cathedral church, the
stockholders of a bank or insurance company, etc. A
corporation sole consists of a single person, who is
made a body corporate and politic, in order to give him
some legal capacities, and especially that of
succession, which as a natural person he can not have.
Kings, bishops, deans, parsons, and vicars, are in
England sole corporations. A fee will not pass to a
corporation sole without the word "successors" in the
grant. There are instances in the United States of a
minister of a parish seized of parsonage lands in the
right of his parish, being a corporation sole, as in
Massachusetts. Corporations are sometimes classified as
public and private; public being convertible with
municipal, and private corporations being all
corporations not municipal.
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Close corporation. See under Close.
[1913 Webster]Close \Close\ (kl[=o]s), a. [Compar. Closer (kl[=o]"s[~e]r);
superl. Closest.] [Of. & F. clos, p. p. of clore. See
Close, v. t.]
1. Shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box.
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From a close bower this dainty music flowed.
--Dryden.
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2. Narrow; confined; as, a close alley; close quarters. "A
close prison." --Dickens.
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3. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a
feeling of lassitude; -- said of the air, weather, etc.
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If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and
doors, the one maketh the air close, . . . and the
other maketh it exceeding unequal. --Bacon.
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4. Strictly confined; carefully quarded; as, a close
prisoner.
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5. Out of the way observation; secluded; secret; hidden. "He
yet kept himself close because of Saul." --1 Chron. xii. 1
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"Her close intent." --Spenser.
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6. Disposed to keep secrets; secretive; reticent. "For
secrecy, no lady closer." --Shak.
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7. Having the parts near each other; dense; solid; compact;
as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as
applied to liquids.
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The golden globe being put into a press, . . . the
water made itself way through the pores of that very
close metal. --Locke.
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8. Concise; to the point; as, close reasoning. "Where the
original is close no version can reach it in the same
compass." --Dryden.
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9. Adjoining; near; either in space; time, or thought; --
often followed by to.
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Plant the spring crocuses close to a wall.
--Mortimer.
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The thought of the Man of sorrows seemed a very
close thing -- not a faint hearsay. --G. Eliot.
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10. Short; as, to cut grass or hair close.
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11. Intimate; familiar; confidential.
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League with you I seek
And mutual amity, so strait, so close,
That I with you must dwell, or you with me.
--Milton.
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12. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; as, a close vote.
"A close contest." --Prescott.
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13. Difficult to obtain; as, money is close. --Bartlett.
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14. Parsimonious; stingy. "A crusty old fellow, as close as a
vise." --Hawthorne.
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15. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact;
strict; as, a close translation. --Locke.
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16. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating;
strict; not wandering; as, a close observer.
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17. (Phon.) Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of
the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French,
Italian, and German; -- opposed to open.
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Close borough. See under Borough.
Close breeding. See under Breeding.
Close communion, communion in the Lord's supper, restricted
to those who have received baptism by immersion.
Close corporation, a body or corporation which fills its
own vacancies.
Close fertilization. (Bot.) See Fertilization.
Close harmony (Mus.), compact harmony, in which the tones
composing each chord are not widely distributed over
several octaves.
Close time, a fixed period during which killing game or
catching certain fish is prohibited by law.
Close vowel (Pron.), a vowel which is pronounced with a
diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of
the cavity of the mouth.
Close to the wind (Naut.), directed as nearly to the point
from which the wind blows as it is possible to sail;
closehauled; -- said of a vessel.
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Concorporation
(gcide) | Concorporation \Con*cor`po*ra"tion\, n. [L. concorporatio.]
Union of things in one mass or body. [R.] --Dr. H. More.
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Corporation aggregate
(gcide) | Aggregate \Ag"gre*gate\, a. [L. aggregatus, p. p.]
1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or
sum; collective.
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The aggregate testimony of many hundreds. --Sir T.
Browne.
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2. (Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as,
aggregate glands.
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3. (Bot.) Composed of several florets within a common
involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed
from one flower, as in the raspberry.
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4. (Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent
to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by
mechanical means.
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5. (Zool.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of
certain compound animals.
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Corporation aggregate. (Law) See under Corporation.
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Corporation sole
(gcide) | Sole \Sole\, a. [L. solus, or OF. sol, F. seul (fr. L. solus;
cf. L. sollus whole, entire. Cf. Desolate, Solemn,
Solo, Sullen.]
1. Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.
"The sole son of my queen." --Shak.
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He, be sure . . . first and last will reign
Sole king. --Milton.
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2. (Law) Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.
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Corporation sole. See the Note under Corporation.
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Syn: Single; individual; only; alone; solitary.
[1913 Webster]Corporation \Cor`po*ra"tion\ (k[^o]r`p[-o]*r[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
[L. corporatio incarnation: cf. F. corporation corporation.]
A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to
act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity
of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting
business as an individual.
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Note: Corporations are aggregate or sole. {Corporations
aggregate} consist of two or more persons united in a
society, which is preserved by a succession of members,
either forever or till the corporation is dissolved by
the power that formed it, by the death of all its
members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or
by forfeiture. Such corporations are the mayor and
aldermen of cities, the head and fellows of a college,
the dean and chapter of a cathedral church, the
stockholders of a bank or insurance company, etc. A
corporation sole consists of a single person, who is
made a body corporate and politic, in order to give him
some legal capacities, and especially that of
succession, which as a natural person he can not have.
Kings, bishops, deans, parsons, and vicars, are in
England sole corporations. A fee will not pass to a
corporation sole without the word "successors" in the
grant. There are instances in the United States of a
minister of a parish seized of parsonage lands in the
right of his parish, being a corporation sole, as in
Massachusetts. Corporations are sometimes classified as
public and private; public being convertible with
municipal, and private corporations being all
corporations not municipal.
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Close corporation. See under Close.
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corporation sole
(gcide) | Sole \Sole\, a. [L. solus, or OF. sol, F. seul (fr. L. solus;
cf. L. sollus whole, entire. Cf. Desolate, Solemn,
Solo, Sullen.]
1. Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.
"The sole son of my queen." --Shak.
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He, be sure . . . first and last will reign
Sole king. --Milton.
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2. (Law) Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.
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Corporation sole. See the Note under Corporation.
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Syn: Single; individual; only; alone; solitary.
[1913 Webster]Corporation \Cor`po*ra"tion\ (k[^o]r`p[-o]*r[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
[L. corporatio incarnation: cf. F. corporation corporation.]
A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to
act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity
of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting
business as an individual.
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Note: Corporations are aggregate or sole. {Corporations
aggregate} consist of two or more persons united in a
society, which is preserved by a succession of members,
either forever or till the corporation is dissolved by
the power that formed it, by the death of all its
members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or
by forfeiture. Such corporations are the mayor and
aldermen of cities, the head and fellows of a college,
the dean and chapter of a cathedral church, the
stockholders of a bank or insurance company, etc. A
corporation sole consists of a single person, who is
made a body corporate and politic, in order to give him
some legal capacities, and especially that of
succession, which as a natural person he can not have.
Kings, bishops, deans, parsons, and vicars, are in
England sole corporations. A fee will not pass to a
corporation sole without the word "successors" in the
grant. There are instances in the United States of a
minister of a parish seized of parsonage lands in the
right of his parish, being a corporation sole, as in
Massachusetts. Corporations are sometimes classified as
public and private; public being convertible with
municipal, and private corporations being all
corporations not municipal.
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Close corporation. See under Close.
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Corporations aggregate
(gcide) | Corporation \Cor`po*ra"tion\ (k[^o]r`p[-o]*r[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
[L. corporatio incarnation: cf. F. corporation corporation.]
A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to
act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity
of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting
business as an individual.
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Note: Corporations are aggregate or sole. {Corporations
aggregate} consist of two or more persons united in a
society, which is preserved by a succession of members,
either forever or till the corporation is dissolved by
the power that formed it, by the death of all its
members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or
by forfeiture. Such corporations are the mayor and
aldermen of cities, the head and fellows of a college,
the dean and chapter of a cathedral church, the
stockholders of a bank or insurance company, etc. A
corporation sole consists of a single person, who is
made a body corporate and politic, in order to give him
some legal capacities, and especially that of
succession, which as a natural person he can not have.
Kings, bishops, deans, parsons, and vicars, are in
England sole corporations. A fee will not pass to a
corporation sole without the word "successors" in the
grant. There are instances in the United States of a
minister of a parish seized of parsonage lands in the
right of his parish, being a corporation sole, as in
Massachusetts. Corporations are sometimes classified as
public and private; public being convertible with
municipal, and private corporations being all
corporations not municipal.
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Close corporation. See under Close.
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Disincorporation
(gcide) | Disincorporation \Dis`in*cor`po*ra"tion\, n.
Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation.
--T. Warton.
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Incorporation
(gcide) | Incorporation \In*cor`po*ra"tion\, n. [L. incorporatio: cf. F.
incorporation.]
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1. The act of incorporating, or the state of being
incorporated.
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2. The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture;
combination; synthesis.
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3. The union of something with a body already existing;
association; intimate union; assimilation; as, the
incorporation of conquered countries into the Roman
republic.
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4. (Law)
(a) The act of creating a corporation.
(b) A body incorporated; a corporation.
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private corporations
(gcide) | Corporation \Cor`po*ra"tion\ (k[^o]r`p[-o]*r[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
[L. corporatio incarnation: cf. F. corporation corporation.]
A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to
act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity
of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting
business as an individual.
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Note: Corporations are aggregate or sole. {Corporations
aggregate} consist of two or more persons united in a
society, which is preserved by a succession of members,
either forever or till the corporation is dissolved by
the power that formed it, by the death of all its
members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or
by forfeiture. Such corporations are the mayor and
aldermen of cities, the head and fellows of a college,
the dean and chapter of a cathedral church, the
stockholders of a bank or insurance company, etc. A
corporation sole consists of a single person, who is
made a body corporate and politic, in order to give him
some legal capacities, and especially that of
succession, which as a natural person he can not have.
Kings, bishops, deans, parsons, and vicars, are in
England sole corporations. A fee will not pass to a
corporation sole without the word "successors" in the
grant. There are instances in the United States of a
minister of a parish seized of parsonage lands in the
right of his parish, being a corporation sole, as in
Massachusetts. Corporations are sometimes classified as
public and private; public being convertible with
municipal, and private corporations being all
corporations not municipal.
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Close corporation. See under Close.
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Public-service corporation
(gcide) | Public-service corporation \Public-service corporation\ or
sometimes Quasi-public corporation \Quasi-public corporation\
A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company,
water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a
public calling or to render services more or less essential
to the general public convenience or safety.
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Quasi corporation
(gcide) | Quasi corporation \Qua"si cor`po*ra"tion\
A corporation consisting of a person or body of persons
invested with some of the qualities of an artificial person,
though not expressly incorporated, esp. the official of
certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools
districts, and the towns of some States of the United States,
certain church officials, as a churchwarden, etc.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
Quasi-public corporation
(gcide) | Public-service corporation \Public-service corporation\ or
sometimes Quasi-public corporation \Quasi-public corporation\
A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company,
water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a
public calling or to render services more or less essential
to the general public convenience or safety.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
articles of incorporation
(wn) | articles of incorporation
n 1: a legal document that creates a corporation; it is filed
with a state by the founders of a corporation and is
governed by the laws of the state |
certificate of incorporation
(wn) | certificate of incorporation
n 1: state approval of the articles of incorporation of a
corporation |
close corporation
(wn) | close corporation
n 1: a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public
market [syn: closed corporation, close corporation,
private corporation, privately held corporation] |
closed corporation
(wn) | closed corporation
n 1: a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public
market [syn: closed corporation, close corporation,
private corporation, privately held corporation] |
closely held corporation
(wn) | closely held corporation
n 1: stock is publicly traded but most is held by a few
shareholders who have no plans to sell |
corporation
(wn) | corporation
n 1: a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been
approved in some state [syn: corporation, corp]
2: slang for a paunch [syn: pot, potbelly, bay window,
corporation, tummy] |
corporation law
(wn) | corporation law
n 1: that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws
governing corporations |
federal deposit insurance corporation
(wn) | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
n 1: a federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in
national banks and other qualified institutions [syn:
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, FDIC] |
federal home loan mortgage corporation
(wn) | Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
n 1: a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary
market for residential mortgages [syn: {Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation}, Freddie Mac, FHLMC] |
incorporation
(wn) | incorporation
n 1: consolidating two or more things; union in (or into) one
body
2: learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated
within yourself [syn: internalization, internalisation,
incorporation]
3: including by incorporating |
international finance corporation
(wn) | International Finance Corporation
n 1: a United Nations agency that invests directly in companies
and guarantees loans to private investors; affiliated with
the World Bank [syn: International Finance Corporation,
IFC] |
private corporation
(wn) | private corporation
n 1: a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public
market [syn: closed corporation, close corporation,
private corporation, privately held corporation] |
privately held corporation
(wn) | privately held corporation
n 1: a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public
market [syn: closed corporation, close corporation,
private corporation, privately held corporation] |
public-service corporation
(wn) | public-service corporation
n 1: a company that performs a public service; subject to
government regulation [syn: utility, public utility,
public utility company, public-service corporation] |
shell corporation
(wn) | shell corporation
n 1: a company that is incorporated but has no assets or
operations [syn: shell corporation, shell entity] |
trust corporation
(wn) | trust corporation
n 1: an organization (usually with a commercial bank) that is
engaged as a trustee or fiduciary or agent in handling
trust funds or estates of custodial arrangements or stock
transfers or related services [syn: trust company, {trust
corporation}] |
3com corporation
(foldoc) | 3Com Corporation
A manufacturer of local area network
equipment.
3Com was founded in 1979. They acquired BICC Data Networks
in 1992, Star-Tek in 1993, Synernetics in 1993, Centrum
in 1994, NiceCom in 1994 AccessWorks, {Sonix
Communications}, Primary Access and Chipcom in 1995 and
Axon and OnStream Networks in 1996. They merged with
U.S. Robotics in 1997.
(http://3com.com/).
(1998-04-03)
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amdahl corporation
(foldoc) | Amdahl Corporation
A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major
supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems
software and servers, data storage subsystems, data
communications products, applications development software,
and a variety of educational and consulting services.
Amdahl products are sold in more than 30 countries for use in
both open systems and IBM plug-compatible mainframe
computing environments.
Quarterly sales $397M, profits $13M (Aug 1994).
In 1997 Amdahl became a division of Fujitsu.
(http://amdahl.com/).
(1995-05-23)
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ashton-tate corporation
(foldoc) | Ashton-Tate Corporation
The original vendor of dBASE and joint developers
of EEMS. Ashton-Tate was founded by Charles Tate and Ashton
was his pet parrot's name. The parrot lived in the lobby of
the company's LA headquarters.
In the early 1990s Ashton-Tate was taken over by Borland
International, Inc., who later became {Borland Software
Corporation}.
[Dates? Address?]
(2004-12-05)
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borland software corporation
(foldoc) | Borland Software Corporation
Borland International, Inc.
A company that sells a variety of PC software
development and database systems. Borland was founded in
1983 and initially became famous for their low-cost software,
particularly Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo Prolog.
Current and past products include the Borland C++ C++ and C
developement environment, the Paradox and dBASE
databases, Delphi, JBuilder, and InterBase.
Borland has approximately 1000 employees worldwide and has
operations in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan,
Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
Borland sold Quattro Pro to Novell in 1994 for $100M.
Novell later sold the product to Corel Corporation, who also
bought Paradox. dBASE was sold in March(?) 1999 to {dBase
Inc.}
In Febuary 1998 Borland bought Visigenic Software, Inc..
The company changed its name to Inprise Corporation on
1998-04-29 and then on 2000-11-14 they announced they were
changing it back to Borland from the first quarter of 2001.
Quarterly sales $69M, profits $61M (Aug 1994).
$56M, $6.4M (July 2001)
(http://borland.com/).
Headquarters: 100 Borland Way, Scotts Valley, CA, 95066, USA.
Telephone: +1 (408) 431 1000.
(2002-03-16)
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british broadcasting corporation
(foldoc) | British Broadcasting Corporation
BBC
(BBC) The non-commercial UK organisation that
commissions, produces and broadcasts television and radio
programmes.
The BBC commissioned the "BBC Micro" from Acorn Computers
for use in a television series about using computers. They
also have one of the world's most respected news websites (on
which I work!).
BBC Home (http://bbc.co.uk/).
BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/).
(2003-07-02)
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