Excerpt from A Letter to the Common Council of the City of London: With Remarks on Lord Chief Justice Pratt's Letter to the City of ExeterWe may infer, from the very definition of a corporation, that thefe are the proper Objects of attention, which (bould employ every cor potate body: for a corporation is defined to be A body politic, confifiing of material bodies, which, joined together, mufi have a name TO 'do things which concern their corporation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.