Body

Legal Definition and Related Resources of Body

Meaning of Body

person , corporation . Main or central part of anything as distinguished from subordinate parts.

Body Alternative Definition

A person. Used of a natural body, or of an artificial one created by law, as a corporation. The main part or frame of anything, as distinguished from its subordinate parts. 22 N. Y. 147; 5 Mason (U.S.) 300. A collection of individuals united for a common purpose. See 23 Wend. (N. Y.) 141.

Synonyms of Body

(Collection), noun

  • aggregation
  • assemblage
  • batch
  • colligation
  • community
  • company
  • compilation
  • congeries
  • conglomeration
  • entity
  • gathering
  • host
  • mass
  • multitude
  • plenum
  • polity
  • sodality
  • troupe
  • wholeness
  • Associated Concepts: body corporate
  • body politic
  • governmental body
  • reviewing body

(Main part), noun

  • core
  • corpus
  • essential part
  • exposition
  • figure
  • form
  • greater part
  • hub
  • main part
  • major part
  • principal part
  • shape
  • structure
  • substance
  • Associated Concepts: body of an instrument

(Person), noun

  • anatomy
  • cadaver
  • carcass
  • carrion
  • corporality
  • corporalness
  • corporeality
  • corpse
  • corpus
  • embodiment
  • entity
  • human being
  • material existence
  • personage
  • physical being
  • physique
  • Associated Concepts: body attachment
  • body execution
  • body heirs

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What does Body mean in American Law?

The definition of Body in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

Generally used to refer to the whole physical manifestation of a person or other animal, but sometimes used to differentiate the central portion of the body, the “trunk,” from the usually attendant head and limbs, as in “The crash decapitated him, throwing his head one way and his body another.” Body is also used to refer to the whole or main part of anything, whether corporeal or conceptual, as in “body of a county” (i.e., the whole county, not a part of it), “body of the instrument” (i.e., the substantive part, excluding recitals, signatures and procedural boiler plate) and “body of the laws,” (i.e., all of them, written or not). Also, “body” is used for a group with powers or functions as such, as in “legislative body,” “body corporate,” etc. See also corpus (the Latin for body) and entries so beginning.

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Body in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

Compare Corpus. The physical person. The natural body or such as is formed by the laws of God, as distinguished from an artificial body or such as is devised by human laws. 1 Bl. Com. 467.

Note: This legal definition of Body in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.


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