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BODY POLITIC, government, corporations. When applied to the government this phrase signifies the state.
2. As to the persons who compose the body politic, they take collectively the name, of people, or nation; and individually they are citizens, when considered in relation to their political rights, and subjects as being submitted to the laws of the state.
3. When it refers to corporations, the term body politic means that the members of such corporations shall be considered as an artificial person.

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The Urban Redevelopment Authority of the City of Suwanee, GA is a public body corporate and politic created and existing under the state of Georgia's Urban Redevelopment Law.

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body politic (redirected from Body corporate and politic)

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