-Corporation sole
A corporation sole is a body politic having perpetual succession, constituted in a single person, who, in right of some office or function, has a capacity to take, purchase, hold and demise (and in some particular instances, under qualifications and restrictions introduced by statute, power to alienate) lands, tenements and hereditaments.[1] It is a legal person that can sue and be sued. An example of a corporate sole is the office of the governor.[2]
– Corporation aggregate
A corporation aggregate has been defined as a collection of individuals united into one body under a special denomination, having perpetual succession under an artificial form, and vested by the policy of the law with the capacity of acting in several respects as an individual, particularly of taking and granting property, of contracting obligations and of suing and being sued, of enjoying privileges and immunities in common, and of exercising a variety of political rights, more or less extensive, according to the design of its institution or the powers conferred upon it, either at the time of its creation or at any subsequent period of its existence.[3]
[1]Chief Fawehinmi v Nigerian Bar Association (No. 2) (1989) 2 NWLR (Pt 105) 558; Halsbury’s Laws of England, 3rd Edition, Vol. 9.page 7, Article 8.
[2]Alapiki v Governor of Rivers State (1991) 8 NWLR (Pt 211)575.
[3]Halsbury’s Laws of England, 3rd edn Volume 9, page 4, article 3; Fawehinmi v NBA and others (No 2) (1989) LPELR-1259(SC).