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CORPUS CHRISTI DAT

CORPORATION

notes the nature or physical existence of a body; corporal denotes its exterior or the co-ordination of it with some other body. Hence we speak of "corporeal hereditaments," but of "corporal punishment" "corporal touch," "corporal oath," etc. —Corporeal hereditaments. See HEREDIT AMENTS.—Corporeal property. Such as af fects the senses, and may be seen and handled by the body, as opposed to incorporeal property, which cannot be seen or handled, and exists only in contemplation. Thus a house is corporeal, but the annual rent payable for its occupation is in corporeal. Corporeal property is, if movable, capable of manual transfer; if immovable, pos session of it may be delivered up. But incor poreal property cannot be so transferred, but some other means must be adopted for its trans fer, of which the most usual is an instrument in writing. Mozley & Whitley. In inter national law. Ambassadors and diplomatic persons at any court or capital. CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE. CORPUS. (Lat.) Body; the body; an aggregate or mass, (of men, laws, or articles 0 physical substance, as distinguished from in tellectual conception; the principal sum or capital, as distinguished from interest or in come. A substantial or positive fact as distin guished from what is equivocal and ambigu ous. The corpus delicti (body of an offense) is the fact of its having been actually com mitted. Best, Pres. 269-279. A corporeal act of any kind, (as distin guished from animus or mere intention,) on the part of him who wishes to acquire a thing, whereby he obtains the physical abil ity to exercise his power over it whenever he pleases. The word occurs frequently in this sense in the civil law. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 248. —Corpus comitatus. The body of a county. The whole county, as distinguished from a part of it, or any particular place in it U. S. v. Grush, 5 Mason, 290, Fed. Cas. No. 15,268.— Corpus corporatum. A corporation; a cor porate body, other than municipal.—Corpus cum causa. (The body with the cause.) An English writ which issued out of chancery, to remove both the body and the record, touching the cause of any man lying in execution upon a judgment for debt, into the king's bench, there to remain until he satisfied the judgment. Co well ; Blount.—Corpus delicti. The body of a crime. The body (material substance) upon which a crime has been committed, e. g., the corpse of a murdered man, the charred remains of a house burned down. In a derivative sense, the substance or foundation of a crime; the substantial fact that a crime has been com mitted. People v. Dick, 37 CaL 281; White v. State, 49 Ala. 347; Goldman v. Com., 100 Va* 865, 42 S. E. 923; State v. Hand, 1 Marv. (Del.) 545, 41 Atl. 192; State v. Dickson, 78 Mo. 441.—Corpus pro corpore. In old rec ords. Body for body. A phrase expressing the liability of manucaptors. 3 How. State Tr. 110. CORPUS CHRISTI DAT. In English law. A feast instituted in 1264, In honor of the sacrament 32 Hen, VIII. c. 21, CORPSE. The dead body of a human being.

Woodward, 4 Wheat 669, 4 1* Ed. 629; Adams v. Railroad Co., 1 Fed. Cas. 92. Tramp corporations. Companies char tered In one state without any intention of doingj business therein, but which carry on their business and operations wholly in other states. State v. Georgia Co., 112 N. a 34, 17 S. E. 10, 19 L. R. A. 485. Synonyms. The words "company" and "corporation" are commonly used as inter changeable terms. In strictness, however, a company is an association of persons for business or other purposes, embracing a con siderable number of individuals, which may or may not be incorporated. In the former case, it is legally a partnership or a joint stock company; in the latter case, it is prop erly called a "corporation." Goddard v. Rail road Co., 202 111. 362, 66 N. E. 1066; Bradley Fertilizer Co. v. South Pub. Co., 4 Misc. Rep. 172, 23 N. T. Supp. 675; Com. v. Reinoehl, 163 Pa. 287, 29 Atl. 896, 25 L E. A. 247; State v. Mead, 27 Vt 722; Leader Printing Co. v. Lowry, 9 Okl. 89, 59 Pac. 242. For the particulars in which corporations differ from "Joint-Stock Companies" and "Partnerships," see those titles. In English law. The statute 13 Car. II. St. 2, c. 1; by which it was provided that no person should there after be elected to office in any corporate town that should not, within one year pre viously, have taken the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, according to the rites of the Church of England; and every person so elected was also required to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. 3 Steph. Comm. 103, 104; 4 Bl. Comm. 58. This statute is now repealed. 4 Steph. Comm. 511. 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, § 3050. CORPORATION ACT. CORPORATION COURTS. CORPORIS ET ANIMO. Lat. By the body and by the mind; by the physical act and by the mental intent Dig. 41, 2, 3. A term descriptive of such things as have an objective, material existence; perceptible by the senses of sight and touch; possessing a real body. Opposed to incorporeal and spiritual. Civ. Code La. 1900, art 460; Sullivan v. Richardson, 33 Fla. 1, 14 South. 692. There is a distinction between "corporeal" and "corporal." The former term means "possess ing a body," that is, tangible, physical, material; the latter means "relating to or affecting a body," that is, bodily, external. Corporeal de CORPOREAIi. CORPORATOR. A member of a corpo ration aggregate. Grant Corp. 48.