Incorporation may refer to: * Incorporation (business), the creation of a corporation * Incorporation of a place, creation of

municipal corporation A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs. The term can also be used to describe municipally ...

such as a city or county *

Incorporation (academic) An degree is an academic degree awarded by one university or college to an alumnus of another, in a process often known as incorporation. The recipient of the degree is often a faculty member at the institution which awards the degree, e.g. at ...

, awarding a degree based on the student having an equivalent degree from another university *

Incorporation of the Bill of Rights In United States constitutional law, incorporation is the doctrine by which portions of the Bill of Rights have been made applicable to the states. When the Bill of Rights was ratified, the courts held that its protections extended only to the ...

, extension of parts of the United States Bill of Rights to bind individual American states. *

Incorporation of international law The incorporation of international law is the process by which international agreements become part of the municipal law of a sovereign state. A country incorporates a treaty by passing domestic legislation that gives effect to the treaty in the na ...

, giving domestic legal force to a sovereign state's international legal obligations *

Incorporation (linguistics) In linguistics, incorporation is a phenomenon by which a grammatical category, such as a verb, forms a compound with its direct object (object incorporation) or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function. The inclusion o ...

Incorporation (Netherlands) The Incorporation is a period in Dutch history where the country was part of the First French Empire. This period lasted from July 9, 1810, until November 21, 1813. History Dissolution of the kingdom The Batavian Republic which existed from 17 ...

, the annexation of the Netherlands by the First French Empire

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