Subject: Corporation/company land enjoying sovereign status??<br/>
Date: Aug 04, 2005 @ 00:14<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (Brendan Whyte &lt;bwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2085887008"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;Subject: Corporation/company land enjoying sovereign status??<br/>
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&gt;Are there companies/corporations that have sovereign or quasi-sovereign <br/>
&gt;status over a territory? (e.g. the United Fruit Company in Colombia or <br/>
&gt;Shell in Nigeria)<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Maybe not anymore but Hudson Bay Co and East India Co, once did. There were <br/>
many other Royal charter companies of French, British, Dutch (ie VOC), <br/>
Danish and other nations.</div>