county corporate or corporate county was a type of subnational division used for local government in England, Wales, and Ireland. Counties corporate were...

from the jurisdiction of the counties that surrounded them. These towns and cities had the status of a county corporate, often granted by royal charter...

were counties corporate, which gave them the right to appoint their own sheriffs and hold their own courts. Whilst in theory the counties corporate could...

status of self-governing counties separate from adjacent counties. Such a county became known as a county corporate or "county of itself". For most practical...

considered 'county level' authorities. Today, these have largely replaced the historic county corporate entities granted self-governance with county government...

Something Corporate (also known as SoCo) is an American rock band from Laguna Niguel, Orange County, California, formed in 1998. Their currently active...

the 18 counties corporate (before 1889), each of which was an administrative county for a single town or city, within a larger "county-at-large". Toponymical...

county was subdivided into smaller administrative areas; the city of York was a self-governing county corporate from 1396, and the rest of the county...

self-governing since the thirteenth century and became a county in its own right, a county corporate. Middlesex also included Westminster, which was separate...

between baronies and "peculiar districts"; the latter encompassing counties corporate and liberties in the environs of some of the older or larger towns...