...insane person " and " lunatic " shall include every idiot, non compos, lunatic, and insane person; and the word "person " may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and the reference to any officer shall include any person authorized by law to perform the duties of...

...is treated as ¡г person, anil the statute prescribing the rules for the construction of statutes provides that "the word ' person ' may extend and...applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals." НОЛУ. St. § 2, sub. 12. This construction is consistent with the manifest intent...

...expressly included in the statute. Iinltiinore ir Olio R. R. Oi. v. Gallalnte'x aifm'rs, 12 Gratt. 663; and perhaps, under our Code, chapter 15, section 13,...such was not the purpose of the legislative mind. Wextern Union Tel. Co. v. Richmond ritg, 26 Gratt. 1; Miller's executors v. Commonirealth, 27 Gratt....

...Trust is to be considered as a person to whom the income is payable. By express provision of statute, the word " person " may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate ; Pub. Sts. c. 3, § 8, cl. 16 ; and numerous cases decided irrespectively of statutory provisions...

...word Importing the masculine gender only may extend and be applied to females as well as males ; and the word 'person' may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, and the public generally, as well as Individuals, partnerships, person« and...

...substituted for an "oath;" and in like cases the word "sworn" shall include the word "affirmed." Eleventh. The word "person" may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate. Twelfth. The words " preceding" and "following," when used by way of reference to any section of these...

...persons, if within the Commonwealth." By the Pub. Sts. c. 3, § 3, cl. 16, in the construction of statutes the word " person " may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate. Under these provisions the property in question has been assessed to the Williston Seminary, that being...

...1849; sec. 2081, RS 1878. According to the same statutes, it was provided that the word "person" might extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as to individuals. Subd. 12, sec. 1, ch. 4, RS 1849; ch. 5, RS 1858; sec. 4971, RS 1878. But by the deed...

...the corporation. Section 50 of the Compiled Laws relative to the construction of statutes provides : "The word 'person' may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as to individuals." Reference must be had to the provisions of the act of incorporation of the corporation...

...words importing the masculine gender only may extend to and be applied to females as well as males; the word "person" may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as to natural persons ; 2 the word "issue " shall be construed to include all the lawful lineal descendants...