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It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto—it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.

Edward Coke

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Edward Coke
Died: 1633
Died: September 3
Barrister
Judge
Lord Chief Justice Of England And Wales
Politician
Mileham
Norfolk
Sir Edward Coke
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Shade
Reality
Legal
Immortal
Consideration
Nonentity
Corporations
Aggregate
Invisible
Corporation
Fiction
Rests
Law
Purposes

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