Title 1 — General ProvisionsRelease 119-73not60
§5 “company” or “association” as Including Successors and Assigns
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When a law uses "company" or "association" for a corporation, it also covers that corporation's successors and assigns — meaning future owners or people who are legally given its rights — as if those words were written in the law.
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Title 1, §5
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The word “company” or “association”, when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words “successors and assigns of such company or association”, in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed.
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1 U.S.C. § 5
Title 1 — General Provisions
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60