Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

ecclesiastical corporation

English law. A corporation that is organized for spiritual purposes or for the administration of property held for religious uses. This type of corporation is composed exclusively of ecclesiastics. - Also termed religious corporation. Cf. lay corporation."Ecclesiastical corporations. Corporations created for the furtherance of religion .... They are of two kinds: (1) corporations sole, i.e., bishops, certain deans, parsons and vicars; and (2) corporations aggregate, i.e., deans and chapters, and formerly prior and convent, abbot and monks, and the like. Such corporations are called 'religious corporations,' or 'religious societies,' in the United States." 1 Stewart Rapalje & Robert L. Lawrence, A Dictionary of American and English Law 432 (1883).