What is BODY? Definition of BODY in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
A person. Used of a natural body, or of an artificial one created by law, as a corporation.
The main part of the human body; the trunk. Walker v. State, 34 Fla. 167, 16 So. 80, 43 Am.St. Rep. 186. The term may, however, embrace all members of the person, Louisville Ry. Co. v. Veith, 157 Ky. 424, 163 S.W. 217; including the head,
Franklin v. State, 33 Ohio Cir.Ct.R. 21, 22.
Also the main part of an instrument; in deeds it is spoken of as distinguished from the recitals and other introductory parts and signatures; in affidavits, from the title and jurat.
A collection of laws; that is, the embodiment of the laws in one connected statement or collection, called a "body of laws" ( q. v.).
A cement mixer assembled on a truck, Consolidated Rock Products Co. v. Carter, 54 Cal.App.2d 519, 129 P.2d 455, 457. The Workmen's Benefit Fund of the United States of America. In re Workmen's Benefit Fund of United States, 38 N.Y.S.2d 429, 431, 265 App.Div. 176.
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