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Quotes from Case of Sutton's Hospital — Edward Coke

1552–1634 England

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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.

Case of Sutton's Hospital (1612)

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.

Case of Sutton's Hospital (1612)

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