incorporation

incorporation definition - legal

n

  1. The process of forming a business corporation.
  2. The doctrine that the Bill of Rights is applied to the states by inclusion in the Fourteenth Amendment right of due process.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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