Abstract
The corporation is perhaps the most economically significant of the business associations. Having origins that could be traced back to the Roman law, the corporation was by the fourth century the organization of choice for political clubs, guilds, and churches. The true progenitor of the modern corporation, however, may only date back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when a coherent theory of corporation law had been developed.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
Harold Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Harvard University Press: 1983), p. 215–221.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Balouziyeh, J.M.B. (2013). Introduction to the Corporation. In: A Legal Guide to United States Business Organizations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37907-9_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37907-9_6
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-37906-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-37907-9
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and LawLaw and Criminology (R0)