ADVERTISEMENT. THERE is no title in the laws of England more extensive, or more generally interefting, than that of Corporations. The prefent work is an attempt to reduce into a fyftematic form the law upon that fubject, which lies fcattered in fo many volumes of reports. The introduction prepares the reader for the perufal of the body of the work, by giving a definition and defcription of a corporation, the diftribution of corporations into their different kinds, and the manner in which a corporation is compofed. THE first chapter treats of the authority by which a corporation is created; the fecond, of corporations confidered in their relation to the public; the third, of their internal conftitution; the fourth, of the manner in which they are vifited; and the fifth, of the diffolution of a corporation, and its effects. THE prefent volume contains the first and se- SHOULD the prefent work be favourably received, it is the author's intention to publish another into aggregate of many persons capable, and of ecclefiaftical into regular and fecular of lay into eleemofynary and civil Civil corporations of different kinds 2 4 СНАР. `Diftinction between a fraternity or brotherhood, and a corporate company 47, 48 The King may licence a fubject to erect a corporation The mode of erecting fuch corporations 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56 C. II Their capacity with respect to property and franchise Difference between a fole and aggregate.corporation with Rent in arrear to whom it belongs Mortmain, what and how introduced |