Sole - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: soleSole, Corporation
Sole, Corporation, one person and his successors, who are incorporated by law, in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had; as the sovereign, a bishop, parson, etc., Steph. Com., 7th Edn., i. 358; iii. 4.The word 'successors' was essential in order to pass the fee simple in a grant to a corporation sole; without it, a life estate only passes: Co. Litt. 94 b. Words of limitation are not now necessary to convey land to a corporation sole [(English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 60], and by s. 180 (ibid.) any property which vested at any time in a corporation sole, including the Crown, passes and always has passed to his successors unless disposed of by him, and on his death it does not pas to his personal representatives but to his successor [Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 3 (5)]. In the event of a vacancy in office, see s. 180, L.P. Act, 1925. As to the property on a dissolut...
Corporation sole and corporation aggregate
Corporation sole and corporation aggregate, there is a juristic distinction between a corporation sole and a corporation aggregate and the corporation sole is not endowed with a separate legal personality as the corporation aggregate, S. Govinda Menon v. Union of India, AIR 1967 SC 1274 (1279): (1967) 2 SCR 506....
sole proprietorship
sole proprietorship : a business owned and controlled by one person who is solely liable for its obligations compare corporation, partnership ...
sole
sole : belonging exclusively or otherwise limited to one usually specified individual, unit, or group ...
sole custody
sole custody see custody ...
Solely
Singly alone only without another as to rest a cause solely one argument to rely solelyn ones own strength...
Soleness
The state of being sole or alone singleness...
Sole trader
A feme sole trader...
Corporation sole
Corporation sole, is a body politic having perpetual succession, constituted in a single person, who in right of some office or function, has a capacity to take, purchase, hold and demise real property and now, it would seem, also to take and hold personal property, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 9, para 1200, p. 719....
Feme-sole
Feme-sole. A woman not subject to the control or interference of a husband over herself or her property....
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