The word “company” or “association”, when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words “successors and assigns of such company or association”, in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed.
Structure US Code
CHAPTER 1— RULES OF CONSTRUCTION
§ 1. Words denoting number, gender, and so forth
§ 2. “County” as including “parish”, and so forth
§ 3. “Vessel” as including all means of water transportation
§ 4. “Vehicle” as including all means of land transportation
§ 5. “Company” or “association” as including successors and assigns
§ 6. Limitation of term “products of American fisheries”
§ 8. “Person”, “human being”, “child”, and “individual” as including born-alive infant