[Avodah] Corporate Entities

[Jonathan Baker]

RMi:
> Thinking legally for a moment, a shituf is being treated as common
> property among multiple owners. Something like a general partnership,
> not even a limited or limited liability partnership.
 
> But achizas habayis is treated like a real corporation, an entity in
> its own right not actually owned by the inheritors.
 
> Which made me wonder what other corporate entities exist in halakhah:
>     heqdeish
>     the tzibur -- and is that only Benei Yisrael as a whole, or can a
> 	city own something?

Well, there's the shiva tuvei ha'ir, that are essentially a board that
can make decisions for the community, e.g., to desanctify a shul or to
sell a sefer Torah.  The Sanhedrin, in a more global sense, represents
the corporate body of Israel.

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