Sumário:The corporate body: The separate corporate personality of the family and the state is associated with the mythical person of their founding ancestors. The corporate body originates in the projection of sovereignty outside the social. The corporate body and the communal body correspond to social structure and communitas respectively. The corporate structure as a legal order -- Legal continuity and the institution of historical time. From mythical time to corporate perpetuity. Corporate perpetuity, ancestral immortality. Constitutional moments as interruptions of time -- Critical perspectives on the alliance of law and time.