estatification

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noun

The integration of separate properties into one estate.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounestatification (uncountable)
  1. uncommonuncountablelawThe integration of separate properties into one estate.

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    1930, Harold Chaloner Dowdall, Estatification: The Legal and Polit. Problem of Corporate Unity Psychologically Regarded
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    It would solve many difficulties of legal theory, including that of the corporation sole and the one-man company, if in some circumstances thought were directed more to the estatification of interests and less to the incorporation[…]

    1921, Frederick Pollock, The Law Quarterly Review, page 167

    The structural result of this process will be an "estatification." The concrete interests of many persons, thus integrated, is an “estate." It will be seen that applied to the corporation this view regards the shareholders as[…]

    1932, Illinois Law Review
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