corporation sole |
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Public office (created usually by an act of parliament) or ecclesiastical office (usually the owner of church land) that has a separate and continuing legal existence, and only one member (the sole officeholder). Contract made with a corporation-sole continues from one officeholder to his or her successor or, if made during a vacancy in office, to the appointee.
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corporation sole is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law subject.
corporation sole appears in the definitions of the following terms: public trustee and public corporation
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