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Baroness

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Ultra vires

can be made binding upon it by ratification. See also Att. Gen. v. Mersey Ry., 1907 AC 415; Baroness Wenlock v. River Dee Co., ubi supra; Sinclair v. Brougham, 1914 AC 398. Consult Brice, Street or Beattie

Corporation or body politic

the powers of a corporation created by the king's charter and those of corporation created by statute, see Baroness Wenlock v. River Dee Co., (1887) 36 Ch D 685 n., per Bowen, L.J. It is a general

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Peeress

Peeress. Women may acquire peerages by creation (as the Baroness Burdett Coutts), descent (as where a peerage goes in the female as well as in the male line,

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