body corporate

noun

, Law.

1. a person, association, or group of persons legally incorporated; corporation.

body corporate

noun

1. law a group of persons incorporated to carry out a specific enterprise See corporation

Word History and Origins

Origin of body corporate¹

First recorded in 1490–1500

Example Sentences

Yeardley was to organize the outlying settlements into “one body corporate, and live under Equal and like Law,” his orders said.

From Washington Post

Source: "Guidance regarding the legal obligations placed on forces as body corporate when dealing with speeding and red light offences by emergency service vehicles"

From BBC

Still, state education law specifies that “the board of education of each city school district of a city with 125,000 inhabitants or more according to the latest federal census is hereby continued as a body corporate.”

From New York Times

Still, state education law specifies that “the board of education of each city school district of a city with 125,000 inhabitants or more according to the latest federal census is hereby continued as a body corporate.”

From New York Times

In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

From Project Gutenberg