Corporate - Law Dictionary Search Results
Supplicium
Supplicium, any corporal punishment; it includes death, Civ. Law.
Tangible property
Tangible property, corporeal property.
Corporalship
A corporals office
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FHLMC
a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages It is called Freddie Mac in the
pierce
Service may attempt to the plain meaning of the agreement "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] pierce the corporate veil : to disregard the corporate entity and reach the personal assets of the corporation's controlling parties :
Joint-tenancy
different degrees of interest in the same estate, which is inconsistent with the nature of joint-tenancy. A body corporate, therefore, whose existence has no natural termina-tion, cannot at Common Law the joint-tenant with a natural person; and
Company
such other persons as may from time to time become members of the company, shall be a body corporate by the name contained in the memorandum, capable forthwith of exercising all the functions of an incorporated company,
Person
(205) 1. Person, in an Act of Parliament passed after 1st January, 1890, includes 'any body of persons corporate or unincorporate' unless the contrary intention appears, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 19. A corporation, such as a limited
Corporation or body politic
can neither be outlawed nor arrested; it only enjoys a legal entity, sues and is sued by is corporate name, and holds and enjoys property by such name. A corporation can sue or be sued for a
waste
by a failure to exercise proper care or sound judgment in managing them ;esp : a transfer of corporate assets (as through excessive executive compensation or a merger) for no legitimate business purpose or for less than
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