What is CORPORATION ACT

In English law . The statute 13 Car. II. St. 2, c. 1; by which it was provided that no person should thereafter be elected to office in any corporate town that should not, within one year previously, 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 This statute is now repealed. 4 Steph.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