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Chief Justice of England, the presiding judge in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, and, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor, President of the High Court, and also an ex-officio judge of the Court of Appeal (Jud. Act, 1873, s. 5, Jud. Act, 1875, s. 6) [now Judicature Act, 1925, s. 6(2)]. The full title is, 'Lord Chief Justice of England,' abbreviated L.C.J.The 'Levies of the Chief Justices of England' down to that of Lord Mansfield (who was appointed in 1756, resigned in 1788, and died in 1793) was brought out by Lord Campbell in 1849....
Corporation or body politic
Corporation or body politic, an artificial person es-tablished for preserving in perpetual succession certain rights, which being conferred on natural persons only would fail in process of time. It is either aggegate, consisting of many members, or sole, consisting of one person only, as a parson. It is also either spiritual, created to perpetuate the rights of the Church, or lay'sub-divided into civil, created for many temporal purposes, and eleemosynary, to perpetuate founders' charities. It is by virtue of the sovereign's prerogative exercised by a charter, or of an Act of Parliament, or of prescription, that the artificial personage called a corporation, whether sole or aggregate, civil or ecclesiastical, is created. The royal charter gives it a legal immortality, and a name by which it acts and becomes known. It has power to make bye-laws for its own government, and transacts its business under the authority of a common seal-its hand and mouthpiece; it has neither soul nor tangibl...
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