| 单词 | municipal corporation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmunicipal corporation municipal corporation n. a public corporation established as a subordinate agency of a state for the purpose of local government (the first such corporations in England and Wales were established by the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] > town or borough council corporation1463 Common Council1467 consulatea1513 state1516 town council1637 commonality1649 regency1704 communa1711 municipality1790 municipal corporation1833 commune1837 borough council1879 municipy1882 1833 Estimates for Year ending 31 Mar. 1834 3 in Parl. Papers XXIV. 507 The Expenses of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the existing State of Municipal Corporations in Great Britain and Ireland. 1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn I. iii. 22 Had he been elected a member of the municipal corporation of Loughshane, instead of its representative in the British Parliament. 1989 J. B. Saunders Words & Phrases legally Defined (ed. 3) III. 182/2 ‘Municipal corporation’ means the body corporate constituted by the incorporation of the inhabitants of a borough. (Municipal Corporations Act 1882, s7). < as lemmas |
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