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CORPORATION DE JURE

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Latin for a corporation in fact, that it is duly and properly organized, registered and recognized under law. … [Read more...]

CORPUS JURIS CIVILIS

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The body of the civil law. This, is the name given to a collection of the civil law, consisting of Justinian's Institutes, the Pandects or Digest, the Code, and the Novels. … [Read more...]

CORPORATION LAW

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The laws that govern the formation and activities of a corporation. … [Read more...]

CORRECTION

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Discipline; chastisement administered by a master or other person in authority to one who has committed an offense, for the purpose of curing his faults or bringing him into proper subjection. Correction, house of. A prison for the reformation of petty or juvenile offenders. … [Read more...]

CORPORATOR

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One who is a member of a corporation. 2. In general, a corporator is entitled to enjoy all the benefits and rights which belong to any other member of the corporation as such. But in some corporations, where the rights are of a pecuniary nature, each corporator is entitles to those rights in proportion to his interest; he will therefore be entitled to vote only in proportion to … [Read more...]

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