ADVERTISEMENT. THERE is no title in the laws of England more extensive, or more generally interesting, than that of Corporations. The present work is an attempt to reduce into a systematic form the law upon that subject, which lies scattered in so many volumes of reports. The introduction prepares the reader for the perusal of the body of the work, by giving a definition and description of a corporation, the distribution of corporations into their different kinds, and the manner in which a corporation is composed. The first chapter treats of the authority by which a corporation is created; the fecond, of corporations considered in their relation to the public; the third, of their internal conftitution; the fourth, of the manner in which they are visited; and the fifth, of the dissolution of a corporation, and its effects. a 3 'The The present volume contains the first and fecond chapters, and a considerable part of the third; the rest of the latter, and the two succeeding chapters, will make two other volumes similar to the present. The whole of the work will be published before the end of next Trinity term. Should the present work be favourably received, it is the author's intention to publish another volume on the constitution and laws of the city of London. No. 4, Hare-Court, TEMPLE, NOVEMBER 4th, 1793. CON CONTENTS OF THE FIR S T V O L U M E. INTRODUCTION. PAGE, Definition and description of a corporation Distribution of corporations into their different kinds 19 into aggregate of many persons capable, and aggregate of one person capable, and the rest incapable into ecclefiaftical and lay, whether fole or of ecclefiaftical into regular and secular 23 of lay into eleemosynary and civil Civil corporations of different kinds Capacity of churchwardens as a corporation 29, 30, 31, 32 History of the King's prerogative in the creation of Distinction between a fraternity or brotherhood, and a The corporation of London can create the former but not The King may licence a subject to erect a corporation 50 Who shall be considered as the The mode of erecting such corporations 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56 Corporations established under the authority of 35 El. 57, 58, 59 Mode to be pursued in erecting such corporations When an act of parliament is necessary to erect a Gilds the most ancient corporations Gilda mercatoria distinct from the corporation of the town 65 C. II СНАР. Of their several powers, capacities, and incapacities. Incapacities of aggregate corporations Some of these applicable to fole corporations Their capacity with respect to property and franchise The law with respect to the King's capacity to take Difference between a sole and aggregate corporation with Rent in arrear to whom it belongs Mortmain, what and how introduced History of the statutes of mortmain |
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