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Body Corporate

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Body corporate, does not include a corporate sole, nor a Scottish firm, but includes a company incorporated elsewhere than in Great Britain, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 9(2), 4th Edn., Para 1189, p. 673.

Body corporate, does not include 'corporation sole but includes a company incorporated elsewhere than in Great Britain, it does not include a Scottish firm, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 772, p. 552.

The expression 'body corporate' is used in legal parlance to mean a public or private corporation, Ashoka Marketing Ltd v. Punjab National Bank, (1990) 4 SCC 406: AIR 1991 SC 855.

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