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A legal entity that is authorized by state law to act as a legal person apart for the persons or shareholders who own the entity. Like an individual person, a corporation can enter into contracts, can sue and be sued and perform the actions necessary to carry on a business. The shareholders, or owners of the corporation, are legally protected from personal liability for the … [Read more...] about CORPORATION

In old records. To give the tonsure, which was done on the crown, or in the form of a crown; to make a man a priest. Cowell. Ooronare nlium. To make one's son a priest. Homo corona t us was one who had received the first tonsure, as preparatory to superior orders, and the tonsure was in form of a corona, or crown of thorns. Cowell. … [Read more...] about CORONARE

In English law. The statute 13 Car. II. St. 2 c. 1; by which it was provided that no person should thereafter be elected to office in any corporate town that should not within one year previously have taken the sacrament of the Lord … [Read more...] about CORPORATION ACT

The oath administered to a sovereign at the ceremony of crowning or Investing him with the insignia of royalty, In acknowledgment of his right to govern the kingdom, in which he swears to observe the laws, customs, and privileges of the kingdom, and to act and do all things conformably thereto. Wharton. … [Read more...] about CORONATION OATH

Certain courts in Virginia described as follows: "For each city of the state, there shall be a court called a 'corporation court,' to be held by a judge, with like qualifications and elected in the same manner as judges of the county court." Code Va. 1887, … [Read more...] about CORPORATION COURTS