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 Ch. 18. it's intitution. Neither can it be committed to prion ; for it's exitence being ideal, no man can apprehend or arret it. And therefore alo it cannot be outlawed; for outlawry always uppoes a precedent right of arreting, which has been defeated by the parties abconding, and that alo a corporation cannot do: for which reaons the proceedings to compel a corporation to appear to any uit by attorney are always by ditres on their lands and goods. Neither can a corporation be excommunicated; for it has no oul, as is gravely oberved by ir Edward Coke : and therefore alo it is not liable to be ummoned into the eccleiatical courts upon any account; for thoe courts act only pro alute animae, and their entences can only be enforced by piritual cenures: a conideration, which, carried to it's full extent, would alone demontrate the impropriety of thee courts interfering in any temporal rights whatsoever.

are alo other incidents and powers, which belong to ome ort of corporations, and not to others. An aggregate corporation may take goods and chattels for the benefit of themelves and their ucceors, but a ole corporation cannot : for uch moveable property is liable to be lot or imbezzled, and would raie a multitude of diputes between the ucceor and executor; which the law is careful to avoid. In eccleiatical and eleemoynary foundations, the king or the founder may give them rules, laws, tatutes, and ordinances, which they are bound to oberve: but corporations merely lay, contituted for civil purpoes, are ubject to no particular tatutes; but to the common law, and to their own by-laws, not contrary to the laws of the realm. Aggregate corporations alo, that have by their contitution a head, as a dean, warden, mater, or the like, cannot do any acts during the vacancy of the headhip, except only appointing another: neither are they then capable of receiving a grant; for uch corporation is incomplete without a head. But there may be a cor- Rh