...become members of said corporation, shall be, and are hereby ordained, constituted, and declared to be one body corporate and politic, in deed, fact, and name, by the name and style of "The Keosauqua Their powers. Lyceum;" and by that name they and their successors shall...

...London, etc., the several liberties, privileges and franchises following, viz., to be of themselves one body corporate and politic, in deed, fact and name, by the name of mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of London, etc.' " The city appeared by their attorney and...

...become members of the said Society, shall be, and are hereby ordained, constituted and declared to be a body corporate and politic, in deed, fact and name, by the name of the "The Society of Tammany, or Columbian Order, in the City of New York," and that by that name they...

...Burgesses of the borough aforesaid, and their successors, in future times for ever, may, and shall be, one body corporate and politic in deed, fact, and name, by the name of the Mayor and Commonalty of the Borough of Colchester, in the County of Essex, and we do, for us, our...

...time being, and their successors, forever hereafter, be, and shall be, by force of these presents, one body corporate and politic, in deed, fact, and name, by the name of, the mayor, aldermen and commonalty, of the city of Albany; and them by the name of, the mayor, aldermen...

...of the Corporation hereby erected, he, and for ever hereafter shall he by Virtue of these Presents, One Body Corporate and Politic in Deed, Fact and Name, by the Name, Stile, and Title of THE TRVSTKKS OF THE NEW-YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY. Next arc conferred unreservedly all...

...and county of itself. And that the burgesses and inhabitants of the same town for ever may and shall be one body corporate and politic in deed, fact and name, by the name of the mayor, bailiffs and burgesses of the town of Southampton, in the county of the town of Southampton,...

...the time being, and their successors forever hereafter, be and shall be, by force of these presents one body corporate and politic, in deed, fact and name, by the name of The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city of ALBANY; and them by the name of the Mayor, Aldermen...

...until finally in 1605 James I by charter declared the borough of Cambridge "shall be made and shall be one body corporate and politic in deed, fact and name by the name of the mayor, bailiffs and burgesses of the borough of Cambridge." As early as 1311 a borough is called...

...and their successors, to be elected by virtue of this our present Charter, shall for ever hereafter be one body corporate and politic in deed, fact and name, by the name and style, "THE CORPORATION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, IN AMERICA," and them...