disregarding corporate entity

disregarding corporate entity
Treating a corporation and the individual or individuals owning all its stock as identical; graphically stated, piercing the veil of the corporate entity. Anno: 1 ALR 610; 34 ALR 597.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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