Word Finder - corporate

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A bond issued by a corporation.

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A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.

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A corporation that franchises, as opposed to than an individual franchise.

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McDonald's corporate issued a new policy today.

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To incorporate.

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To become incorporated.

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Of or relating to a corporation.

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Formed into a corporation; incorporated.

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Unified into one body; collective.

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Related to corporation that franchises rather than an individual franchise.

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The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise.

He was friendly enough, but no threat to anyone and no corporate climber.

The city coroner is a corporate officer.

The town was corporate from the 16th century until 1886.

Owing to the lack of a corporate Silesian consciousness and the feebleness of their local institutions, the people soon became reconciled to their change of rulers.

He experienced the insidious influence of the corporate culture.

Its corporate governance also marsh brokers idea hits the.

The so-called Rules (the Longer and the Shorter) are catechisms of the spiritual life rather than a body of regulations for the corporate working of a community, such as is now understood by a monastic rule.

On the other hand, there is a growing sense that missions should be the work of the Church in its corporate capacity, and not of voluntary associations.

The individual monk was sunk in the community, whose corporate life he had to live.

The monk, or the canon, normally exercises his influence on the world in and through his community, not as an individual but as a member of a corporate body.

The province of Hanover retains its system as emended in 1858, and Hesse-Nassau, with the exception of Frankfort-on-Main, received a special corporate system in 1897.

Under the revision of 1908 corporate franchises cannot be granted for a longer term than thirty years.

It was supposed that, if they could be restored, the corporate spirit would prevent the working men from falling under the influence of the Socialists.

In 1524 the burgesses were exempted from appearing at the shire and hundred courts, and in 1583 the body corporate was reconstructed under the title of mayor and commonalty, and power was granted to make by-laws and to punish offenders.

Royal burghs derive part of their income from ancient corporate property known as " the Common Good " and consisting mostly of land and houses.

Honours fell thick upon him in the form of addresses from the city of London and many large towns, and of presentations of freedom from various corporate bodies.

In 1852 the college was empowered to grant degrees; in 1856 it became the property of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; in 1859 it received its present name; and in 1892 it was removed to a park near Durham, included in 1901 in the corporate limits of the city.

New England is prominent in American colonial history as the "Land of the Puritans" and the home of the corporate colony.

So long as the religious motive remained dominant, "blue laws" were a prominent feature of the administration, but by a slow transition the economic motive became the dominant one, and, as a consequence of this transition and of the corporate form of government, European institutions were transformed into American institutions and new political ideas were generated more rapidly in New England than in either the Middle or the Southern colonies.

There are no early charters extant, but in 1586 Elizabeth acknowledged the right of the mayor and burgesses to be a body corporate and to hold a court for pleas under forty shillings, two weekly markets and four annual fairs - which rights they claimed to have exercised from time immemorial.

In London the victory of the crafts is decisively marked by the ordinance of the time of Edward II., which required every citizen to be a member of some trade or mystery, and by another ordinance in 1375 which transferred the right of election of corporate officers (including members of parliament) from the ward-representatives to the trading companies.

The liverymen of the companies, being freemen of the city, have still, however, the exclusive power of electing the lord mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain and other corporate officers.

Cromwell's charter of 1655, though reciting that "time out of mind" Swansea had been "a town corporate," incorporated it anew, and changed the title of portreeve into mayor, in whom, with twelve aldermen and twelve capital burgesses, it vested the government of the twn.

Cities and villages are permitted - upon authorization by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the electors voting on the question - to own and operate, even outside their corporate limits, public utilities for supplying water, light, heat, power and transportation, and may sell and deliver, outside their corporate limits, water, heat, power and light to an amount not more than one-fourth that furnished by them in each case within their corporate limits; but no city or village of less than 25,000 inhabitants may own or operate' transportation facilities.

The topographical or local series comprises the seals of cities„ of towns and boroughs and of corporate bodies.

Winchester was chartered as a city in 1852 and in 1906 the corporate limits were enlarged.

The county council is a body corporate with power to hold lands.

In this respect they are in the same position as all other local authorities, with respect to whom it has been laid down that they may without any express power in that behalf use the funds at their disposal for protecting themselves against any attack made upon their existence as a corporate body or upon any of their powers or privileges.

Corporate land cannot be alienated without the consent of the same board.

The council may convert corporate land, with the approval of the Local Government Board, into sites for workmen's dwellings.

It is true that in some populous places which were not corporate boroughs local acts of parliament had been passed appointing improvement commissioners for the government of these places.

Therefore every highway - whether carriage-way, driftway, bridleway or footway - which can be shown to have been in use before 1836, is presumably repairable by the inhabitants at large, the only exceptions being such highways as are repairable by private persons or corporate bodies ratione clausurae, ratione tenurae, or by prescription.

The council is a body corporate, may hold land in mortmain, and can appoint committees for its own parish or jointly with any other parish council.

In 1554, by a charter from Queen Mary, bestowed as a reward for fidelity during the rebellion of the duke of Northumberland, Aylesbury was constituted a free borough corporate, with a common council consisting of a bailiff, 10 aldermen and 12 chief burgesses.

The township system may be adopted by county option, but has not been widely established, though purely administrative (not corporate) "townships" are an essential part of state administration.

Since there are various churches, widely differing alike in their principles and practice, it follows that a like difference exists in their ecclesiastical law, which is the outcome of their corporate consciousness as modified by their several relations to the secular authority.

William the Lion had a residence in the city, to which he gave a charter in 1179 confirming the corporate rights granted by David I.

The university of Bombay, established in 1857, is a body corporate, consisting of a chancellor, vice-chancellor and fellows.

Moreover, the idea of corporate responsibility and discipline was overshadowed by that of medicine for the individual soul, though public penance was still often exacted, especially in cases of notorious crime, as when Henry II.

Hence the Conventicle Act (1664) imposed penalties on those taking part in religious meetings in private houses, and the Five Mile Act (1665) forbade an expelled clergyman to come within five miles of a corporate borough, the very place where he was most likely to secure adherence, unless he would swear his adhesion to the dbctrmn.e of non-resistance.

It may only be worn by them, moreover, in their own church, or when the chapter appears elsewhere in its corporate capacity.

In 1773, in consequence of an intrigue on the part of three members of the council to retain themselves in office, the town was deprived of its corporate privileges, which were not restored until 1781.

The Church of England cannot be said, from a legal point of view, to have a corporate existence or even a representative assembly.

Such were the laws which suppressed all the remaining bodies corporate, even the academies, and which extinguished all manorial rights without any indemnity to the owners.

This conception Grotius took, and gave it additional force and solidity by using the principles of this natural law for the determination of international rights and duties, it being obvious that independent nations, in their corporate capacities, were still in that " state of nature " in their mutual relations.

When the family of an aire remained in possession of his estate in a corporate capacity, they formed a " joint and undivided family," the head of which was an aire, and thus kept up the rank of the family.

The unit of local government in South Carolina is the county, which, the state constitution provides, " shall be a body politic and corporate."

Counties are divided into townships and under the constitution each " shall constitute a body politic and corporate," but in 1910 there were no separate township govern-' ments, the existing division of counties into townships being for the purpose of convenience in adjusting taxes.

These were confirmed in 1408-1409 and 1413; in 1418 the charter was annulled, and in 1477 parliament declared that Cirencester was not corporate.

In 1573 Elizabeth granted a charter creating Bideford a free borough corporate, with a common council consisting of a mayor, 5 aldermen and 7 chief burgesses, together with a recorder, town-clerk and 2 serjeants-at-mace.