Assertion: creature's body | /r/HasProperty | a creature of statute
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text: The importance of a corporate body, regardless of its exact function, when such a body is a creature of statute is that its active functions can only be within the scope detailed by the statute which created that corporation.
text: Thus, when a statute in some fashion requires the formation of a corporate body—often for governmental purposes—such bodies when formed are known as "creatures of statute.
text: The jurisdiction of a body that is a creature of statute is also therefore limited to the functional scope written into the laws that created that body.