The inhabitants of Denton, within the corporate limits legally established from time to time, are hereby constituted and continued a body corporate by the name of the "Town of Denton," with all the privileges of a body corporate, by that name to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity, to have and use a common Seal and to have perpetual succession, unless the Charter and the corporate existence are legally abrogated.