 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the purposot transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chieflj fif the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities and capacities, to cor' porations were invented, and are in use. By the* means, a perpetual succession of individuals... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 990 pages
...flairs, and to hold property, without the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity of perpetual conveyances, for the purpose of transmitting...chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men with these qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented and are .in use"" a Dartmouth... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 952 pages
...purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men with these qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented and are -in use."' a Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. Rep. 634. 1824. If the character of a corporation, as here... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...endless necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand.(^It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men,...these means a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for the promotion of the particular object, like one immortal beingf\ But this... | |
 | James R. Hope - 1840 - 76 pages
...perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless " necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the pur" pose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is " chiefly...these means a perpetual succession of individuals " are capable of acting for the promotion of the par" ticular objects like one immortal being." Then... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...property without the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity of perpetual conveyance for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chieffy for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities and capacities,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 796 pages
...affairs, and to hold property without the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chieffy for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession with these qualities and capacities,... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 704 pages
...affairs, and to hold property without the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity of perpetual conveyances for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand." Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636. Angel fy Ames on Corp. 2. A peculiar sort of individuality,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1848 - 1046 pages
...so long as a succession of individual members of the corporation remains, and can be kept up. It was chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession, with the qualities and capacities of one single, artificial, and fictitious being, that corporations were... | |
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It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession with these qualities and capacities that corporations were invented and are in use. By these means, a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for the promotion of... 
