Incorporation may refer to: *

Incorporation (business) Incorporation is the formation of a new corporation. The corporation may be a business, a nonprofit organization, sports club, or a local government of a new city or town. In the United States Specific incorporation requirements in the United ...

, the creation of a business or corporation *

Incorporation of a place 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 owned ...

, the creation of municipal corporation 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 commonly known as incorporation. The recipient of the degree is often a faculty member at the institution which awards the degree, e.g. a ...

, 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 United States Bill of Rights, Bill of Rights have been made applicable to the U.S. state, states. When the Bill of Rights was ratified, the courts held t ...

, 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 n ...

, 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 inclusio ...

, the compunding of a morpheme with another word or phrase *

Incorporation (Netherlands) The Incorporation is a period in the history of the Netherlands where it was part of the First French Empire, which lasted from 9 July 1810 to 21 November 1813. History Dissolution of the kingdom The Batavian Republic which existed from 1795 ...

, the annexation of the Netherlands by the First French Empire

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