PORATION - The Law Mind Legal Dictionary

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Definition

Poration does not appear in legal literature as an independent term of art. The single entry retrieved under this heading in Anderson's Dictionary of Law is not a definition of "poration" at all — it is a fragment of text concerning the Presidency and the Senate, almost certainly the result of a cataloging or indexing error in which a portion of a longer entry was misattributed to this heading. No substantive legal definition of "poration" is supplied by Anderson's or by any other recognized legal dictionary in the Law Mind corpus.

As a matter of general language, poration refers to the formation of pores in a surface, or the resulting pattern of such pores (Wiktionary). The term has technical uses in biology and materials science but carries no established legal meaning in Anglo-American common law, statutory law, or legal procedure.

Researchers encountering "poration" in a legal context should consider three possibilities: (1) a typographical or OCR error for a related term, most likely CORPORATION or INCORPORATION; (2) a technical term imported from a non-legal discipline into a specialized regulatory or scientific context (such as environmental regulation, pharmaceutical law, or biotechnology patent claims), where it retains its scientific rather than legal meaning; or (3) a data artifact, as appears to be the case with the Anderson's entry in this corpus.

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Common Confusion

PORATION / CORPORATION / INCORPORATION: Researchers should verify whether the source document uses "poration" as shorthand, a truncation, or an OCR misread of "corporation" or "incorporation." In digitized nineteenth- and early twentieth-century legal texts, OCR errors frequently drop leading syllables or prefixes, rendering "incorporation" as "ncorporation" or "poration" depending on line-break and scan quality. Confirm against the original source before treating "poration" as a distinct term.

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Why It Matters in Research

The Anderson's entry for this term is a known data artifact. Researchers should not treat the retrieved text — which concerns presidential elections and electors — as having any connection to the headword "poration." This type of misalignment can occur in digitized historical dictionaries when page-break indexing fails or when OCR processes misread headwords. The practical consequence is a false positive: a search for "poration" surfaces content that belongs under PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES or ELECTORS, Presidential.

If you arrived here while researching corporate formation, the operative terms are CORPORATION and INCORPORATION. If you are researching a regulatory or patent document that uses "poration" as a technical term, treat it as a term of art from the underlying science (biology, materials engineering) and consult the governing statute or regulation's own definitional section rather than a general legal dictionary.

For corpus researchers: the Anderson's fragment reproduced under this headword is substantively about the constitutional vesting of executive power and presidential selection by electors. If that is the content you need, navigate directly to those headwords in Anderson's or in the relevant constitutional encyclopedia entries.

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Historical Dictionary Support

Anderson's Dictionary of Law provides the only historical dictionary entry in the Law Mind corpus under this headword, and the entry is plainly misplaced. The text excerpt — beginning with "Of the Senate. See CONGRESS. Of the United States..." and proceeding to quote the constitutional provision vesting executive power in the President — is a fragment from a longer treatment of PRESIDENT or a related constitutional headword. It offers no definition, usage, or commentary on "poration" as a legal concept. No weight should be given to this entry as evidence that "poration" had legal significance at the time Anderson's was compiled.

No other historical legal dictionary — Black's, Bouvier's, Wharton's, or Burrill's — is known to carry an independent entry for "poration."

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Anderson's Dictionary of Law • 1890

Of the Senate. See CONGRESS. Of the United States. "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected as follows" by electors, appointed by each State, as see, at length, ELECTORS, Presidential. "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirtyfive Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States." "In Case of the Removal of the President from Office Commonwealth v. Keefe, 9 Gray, 291 (1857), MetSee 1 Daniel, Neg. Inst. § 449, as to acceptance; calf, J. See also Commonwealth v. Adams, 4 id. 28 $571, as to payment. • Musson v. Lake, 4 How. 274 (1846). * Codman v. Vermont, &c. R. Co., 17 Blatch. 4 (1879), cases. See generally Coxv. Nat. Bank of New York, 100 U. S. 712-18 (1879), cases. • 4 Bl. Com. 301; 13 Fla. 663. (1855); 2 Story, Const. § 1784. 2 Bouldin v. Phelps, 30 F. R. 574 (1887). • Constitution, Art. I, sec. 9, cl. 8. • Smith v. People, 47 N. Y. 334 (1872). Constitution, Art. II, sec. 1, cl. 1. Ibid., cl. 5.