A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental... Institutes of American Law - Page 74by John Bouvier - 1854Full view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...supposedly calculated to effect the object for which it was at ated. Among the most important are immortafo and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality properties, by which a perpetual succession of BMJ persons are considered as the same, and may acts a single individual. They enable a -corporation... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 990 pages
...without it, it cannot exist. For we must here repeat, that this Court have said, that a corporation " possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence."" This position involves several inquiries, which may be embraced in an examination of the reasons assigned... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 952 pages
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter...upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which'it was created.... | |
| Law - 1843 - 530 pages
...considered an artificial being, existing only in contemplation of law ; and being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly or as incidental to its very existence. Corporations created by statute must depend for their powers, and the mode of exercising them, upon... | |
| Indiana. General Assembly. Senate - Indiana - 1837 - 868 pages
...Woodward, (4 Wbeatoa 636) where that distinguished jurist says, the properties possessed by a corporation "are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created." And again: "the objects for which a corporation is created are universally such as the goverment wishes... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law. it possesses only those properties which the charter...individuality ; properties, by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation... | |
| Samuel Alfred Foot - Banking law - 1839 - 112 pages
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it. * . * * Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality;... | |
| John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law," continues the judge, " it possesses only those properties which the charter...individuality ; properties by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as 354 COR 355 the single individual. They enable... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 800 pages
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter...incidental to its very existence. These are such as were supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important... | |
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