... Be it therefore enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament, That the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Leicester now Chancellor of the said University of Oxford, and his Successors for ever, and the Masters and Scholars of the same University of Oxford for the Time being, shall be incorporated and have a perpetual Succession in Fact, Deed and Name, by the Name of the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford; and that the same Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the same University of Oxford, for the Time being, from henceforth, by the Name of Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford, and by none other Name or Names, shall be called and named for evermore; and that they shall have a common Seal to serve for their necessary Causes touching and concerning the said Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the said University of Oxford, and their Successors : And likewise (for Cambridge)...
And further, that as well as the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the said University of Oxford, and their Successors, by the name of the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford (and likewise for Cambridge)... may implead and be impleaded, and sue and be sued for all manner of Causes, Quarrels, Actions Real, Personal and Mixt, of whatsoever Kind, Quality or Nature they be, and shall and may challenge and demand all manner of Liberties and Franchises, and also answer and defend themselves under and by the Name aforesaid, in the same Causes, Quarrels and Actions, for every Thing and Things whatsoever, for the Profit and Right of either of the aforesaid Universities, to be done before any manner of Judge, either Spiritual or Temporal, in any Courts and Places within the Queen's Highness Dominions whatsoever they be...