2. Status of a Body of Men incorporated by the Legislation of two or more States 403-409 RELATIONS BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE CORPORA- TION; INCLUDING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE STATE man law. § 1. In the early periods of the Roman law, the idea of a corporation seems to have been that of a collection of individuals among whom, as well as between whom Early Roand outsiders, existed certain special legal relations. If the notion of a corporate whole or unit was present at all, it existed in a rudimentary shape, and was of slight importance. The basis of this view lies in the names of many of the older and more prominent of the Roman corporations; names which were no other than the names of the members; as, for instance, gentiles, virgines vestales, socii vectigalium publicorum. The property, consequently, of these corporations was spoken of as if it belonged to the members, as agri virginum vestalium.2 Later the term universitas became the generic name for corporations of all kinds,3 a term which seems to have conveyed Arndts, Pandekten, §§ 41-47; Brinz, 2 See Ihering, Gheist des Römischen Rechts, iii. Theil, note 468 to p. 344. 1 See Digest, iii. 4, Quod cuiuscumque universitatis nomine vel contra eam agatur; Digest, xlvii. 22, De collegiis et corporibus; Savigny, System des heutigen Römischen Rechts, vol. ii. §§ 85-102; Windscheid, Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts, i. §§ 5762; Puchta, Pandekten, §§ 25-28; cum-que universitatis nomine," etc. 3 The Rubric of Title 4, liber iii., of the Digest reads: "Quod cuius |