Incorporation may refer to:
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Incorporation (business)
Incorporation is the formation of a new corporation. The corporation may be a business, a nonprofit organization, sports club, or a local government of a new city or town.
In the United States
Specific incorporation requirements in the United ...
, the creation of a corporation
* Incorporation of a place, creation of
municipal corporation
A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs. The term can also be used to describe municipally owne ...
such as a city or county
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Incorporation (academic)
An degree is an academic degree awarded by one university or college to an alumnus of another, in a process often known as incorporation. The recipient of the degree is often a faculty member at the institution which awards the degree, e.g. at ...
, awarding a degree based on the student having an equivalent degree from another university
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Incorporation of the Bill of Rights
In United States constitutional law, incorporation is the doctrine by which portions of the Bill of Rights have been made applicable to the states. When the Bill of Rights was ratified, the courts held that its protections extended only to the ...
, extension of parts of the United States Bill of Rights to bind individual American states.
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Incorporation of international law The incorporation of international law is the process by which international agreements become part of the municipal law of a sovereign state. A country incorporates a treaty by passing domestic legislation that gives effect to the treaty in the na ...
, giving domestic legal force to a sovereign state's international legal obligations
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Incorporation (linguistics)
In linguistics, incorporation is a phenomenon by which a grammatical category, such as a verb, forms a compound with its direct object (object incorporation) or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function. The inclusion of ...
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Incorporation (Netherlands)
The Incorporation is a period in Dutch history where the country was part of the First French Empire. This period lasted from July 9, 1810, until November 21, 1813.
History Dissolution of the kingdom
The Batavian Republic which existed from 17 ...
, the annexation of the Netherlands by the First French Empire
See also
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Incorporation by reference
In law, incorporation by reference is the act of including a second document within another document by only mentioning the second document. This act, if properly done, makes the entire second document a part of the main document. Incorporation by ...
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Incorporated (disambiguation)
Incorporated may refer to:
* Incorporated community
* ''Incorporated'' (Grip Inc. album), 2004, by Grip Inc.
* ''Incorporated'' (Legion of Doom album), 2006
* ''Incorporated'' (TV series), a science fiction thriller television series set in 2075 ...
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Corporation
A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law "born out of statute"; a legal person in legal context) and r ...
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Possession
Possession may refer to:
Law
* Dependent territory, an area of land over which another country exercises sovereignty, but which does not have the full right of participation in that country's governance
* Drug possession, a crime
* Ownership
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