Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

corporation sole

A series of successive persons holding an office; a continuous legal personality that is attributed to successive holders of certain monarchical or ecclesiastical positions, such as kings, bishops, rectors, vicars, and the like. ( This continuous personality is viewed, by legal fiction, as having the qualities of a corporation. Cf. corporation aggregate. "It would have been quite possible to explain in the same way the devolution of the lands of the Crown, or of a bishopric, or of a rectory, from the sovereign, bishop, or rector, to his successor; but English law has preferred to introduce for this purpose the fiction, peculiar to itself, of a 'corporation sole."' Thomas E. Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence 350-51 (13th ed. 1924).