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Which is strange, because the whole concept behind the British invention of the "corporation" is to address a group of people as a singular entity.
by chiffonade 18y ago
Which is strange, because the whole concept behind the British invention of the "corporation" is to address a group of people as a singular entity.
- aristus 18y agoNot quite -- the underlying concept is a "company" in the sense of a troupe, band, eg "The King's Men", the "Dorrit's Chalk-Weavers", "Harold & Sons". The idea of a "corporate person" is much more recent, like 1880's, and I think started in the US.
- chiffonade 18y agoNo, you're wrong. The concept of corporate singularity started in the 1600s in England. From wikipedia: In the late seventeenth century, Stewart Kyd, the author of the first treatise on corporate law in English, defined a corporation as, "a collection of many individuals united into one body, under a special denomination, having perpetual succession under an artificial form, and vested, by policy of the law, with the capacity of acting, in several respects, as an individual, particularly of taking and granting property..."
- jacquesm 18y agoactually, it started in Holland with the V.O.C.
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- chiffonade 18y agoI said that it started in the 1600s in England, not that they invented it. And don't be facetious, everyone knows the Dutch were very innovative during the slave trade.