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Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the First

Note y — Chapter the eighteenth. Of CORPORATIONS.

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By the civil law a corporation was incapable of taking lands, unless by special privilege from the emperor: collegium, si nullo speciali privilegio subnixum fit, haereditatem capere non posse, dubium non est. Cod. 6. 24. 8.

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