A corporation sole is one consisting of one person only, and his successors in some . particular station, who are incorporated by law in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity , which in their natural persons they could not have had. In this sense, the sovereign in England is a sole corporation , so is a bishop, so are some deans distinct from their several chapters, and so is every parson and vicar. 3 Steph. Comm. 168. 169; 2 Kent, Comm. 273. Warner v. Beers, 23 Wend. (N. Y.) 172; Codd v. Itathbone. 19 N. Y. 39; First Parish v. Dunning, 7 Mass. 447. A corporation aggregate is one composed of a number of individuals vested with corporate powers; and a “corporation,” as the word is used in general popular and legal speech, and as defined at the head of this title, means a “corporation aggregate.”
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