| United States. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission - 1968 - 822 pages
...further provides that, " 'Person' or 'persons' as well as all words referring to or importing persons, may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as individuals." u Where a West Virginia corporation appealed an order entered by the Secretary of State... | |
| Illinois - 1913 - 696 pages
...females. Fifth—The word "person" or "persons" as well as all words referring to or importing persons, may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as individuals. Sixth—The words "insane person" and "lunatic" shall include every idiot, non compos,... | |
| Tom Cohen - 2001 - 406 pages
...post—Civil War Reconstruction) that the so-called Dictionary Act was first passed by Congress, in which the word Person “may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate.” More recently, the question of fetal personhood has been debated, not only in the Roe v. Wade decision,... | |
| Boris Bittker - 2003 - 212 pages
...phrases used by Congress in statutes are defined and its definition of “person” is relevant here: mhe word “person” may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate . . . unless the context shows that [it was] intended to be used in a more limited sense.” This presumptively... | |
| Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames, John Lathrop - 2005 - 868 pages
...case, 3 Bland, Ch. 442. It is specially provided, in the Revised Statutes of some of the States, that " the word person may extend, and be applied to bodies...politic and corporate, as well as to individuals." Thus, in the general provisions in the Revised Statutes of Massachusetts (ch. 2, s. 6). Undoubtedly,... | |
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