The power of government to make contracts by Heaton, D

“…The view that because it is a corporation sole 'the Crown' (here seen as a separate legal person from the Sovereign) has contracting power is also flawed: historical legal material suggests corporations sole were not separate legal persons and that the only legal effects of sole corporateness were property descending to the corporator’s successors (not heirs) and limits on dispositive power; for the Sovereign even this is doubtful in view of the prerogative.…”

Principles of financial and management accounting : a sole proprietorship approach / by 392903 Horngren, Charles T., Harrison, Walter T., Robinson, Michael A.