12 JANUARY 1934, Page 6

The Bishop of the Arctic, I am impressed to learn,

is to be constituted a corporation sole, which might suggest vaguely a kind of piscatorial relationship to the Great Seal. Actually, of course, the condition is legal. A corporation is a body capable of holding property and fulfilling other functions and it continues even when the individuals composing it come and go. It is usually " aggregate," consisting of several individuals, or " sole," as representing the holder for the time being of a particular office—in this case the See of the Arctic.

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