Lexic.us

Definition of Private corporation

1. Noun. A corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Private Corporation

Literary usage of Private corporation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"A chartered city is, as to a large class of powers, a private corporation. Nature of quasi corporations—hardly corporations at all. Cooley, Const. ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"The private corporation may refuse to supply a person because its managers may ... The private corporation has no such duty. The grocer is under no legal ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"Is such a corporation a public one, or is it a private corporation, ... But a bank whose stock is owned by private persons is a private corporation, ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"Mere declaration in the charter of a private corporation that it shall be deemed a public service corporation does not make it a corporation on which the ..."

5. Justice and the Poor: A Study of the Present Denial of Justice to the Poor by Reginald Heber Smith (1919)
"... Ti/pe private corporation private corporation Department of Charity Chicago Philadelphia St. Louis Boston Cleveland Los Angeles Baltimore Pittsburgh San ..."

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