Body Politic definition

Body Politic means the State or its agencies or any political subdivision of the State to include a county, city, town, improvement district, taxing district or any other governmental subdivision or public corporation of the State.
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Body Politic means the State or its agencies or any
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Body Politic means any agency of this state or of the federal government, or any unit of local government, including any county, city, town, school district, local improvement or service district, or special district, or any other governmental unit having authority under the law to tax or impose assessments, including special assessments.
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Examples of Body Politic in a sentence

  • It shall be lawful for any Body Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate having any Estate or Interest in any Hereditaments which may be subject to any Rent, or any Manorial, Forestal, or other Rights hereby authorized to be sold, to contract for and purchase such Rent, or such Manorial, Forestal, or other Rights, the Statutes of Mortmain, or any other Act or Law, to the contrary notwithstanding.

  • Weinrib, Charter Perspectives on Chaoulli: The Body and the Body Politic, in ACCESS TO CARE, ACCESS TO JUSTICE: THE LEGAL DEBATE OVER PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE IN CANADA, supra note 182, at 56, 56.

  • Mays, Privatization of Municipal Services: A Contagion in the Body Politic, 34 Duq.

  • Power and Reason are one and the same and the Body Politic built by one or by the other is shaped with the same clay, hence the uselessness of the slash, which heightens the interest for the players and the disinterest for the other party, down there in the audience.It seems that after the Gorgias, political philosophy never recovered the full right it once possessed to think over its specific conditions of felicity and to build the Body Politic with its own flesh and blood56.

  • The impossible surgery started by Socrates continues on an even bigger scale: more Reason, more artificial blood, but less and less of this very specific form of circulating fluid that is the essence of the Body Politic, and for which the Sophists had so many good terms and us so few57.

  • Bill Lewis responds with article entitled “AIDS: discounting the promiscuity theory.” (April 1983, Body Politic 5-6; 11) 4 April 1983Dr. Stan Read of Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children says the incidence of AIDS infection in Canada could double in the next year.

  • They no longer consider the obvious solution to the problem besetting the agora, the one we will explore in the second part because it is still present in the dialogue, at least as a negative template: the assembled Body Politic, in order to take decisions, cannot rely on expert knowledge only, given the constraints of number, totality, urgency and priority that politic imposes.

  • Morrissey, Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia (2012)J.

  • Healing the Body Politic: El Sal- vador’s Struggle for Health Reform From Civil War to Neoliberal Peace.

  • Monstrous Births and the Body Politic: Women’s Political Writings and the Strange and Wonderful Travails of Mistris Parliament and Mistris Rump, by Katherine Romack, 209–30.

Related to Body Politic

  • Legislator means a member of the General Assembly.

  • Body piercing means the creation of an opening in a human body for the purpose of inserting jewelry or other decoration. "Body piercing" includes, but is not limited to, the piercing of an ear, including the tragus, lip, tongue, nose, or eyebrow. "Body piercing" does not include the piercing of an ear, except for the tragus, with a disposable, single-use, presterilized stud and clasp or solid needle that is applied using a mechanical device to force the needle or stud through the ear.

  • Body Corporate means a “body corporate” as defined in the ABCA.

  • Body means a governmental, international or non-profit organisation. "Meeting" includes a series or cycle of meetings.

  • public sector instrumentality means any department, ministry or agency of a state or any corporation, trust, financial institution or other entity controlled by such state;