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....sting of an assemblage of colleges united under one corporate organization and government, affording instruction in the arts and sciences and the learned professions. and conferring degrees. See Com. v. Banks, " Law Lexicon, defines the same as: "A corporation of teachers or assemblage of learned men or colleges for teaching the higher branches of learning: ;and having power to confer degrees. ....

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.... charter, later by royal charter or act of Parliament. University is a corporation aggregateAggregation of corporationsThe corporations are usually colleges or schools." Third Edition of Halsbury's, Volume 13, page 707, at para 1441 deals with the term "Universities". According to the same: "The word "university is not a word of art and, although the institutions to which it refers are....

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....nent Edn. (West Publishing Company), the word "Universities" is defined as follows: "Universities: Bodies politic and corporate have "been known to exist as Far back at last as the time of Cicero, and Gaius traces them even to the laws of Solon of Athens, who lived some 500 years before.... And from time immemorial, as at the present day, this privilege of being a corporation or arti....