 | 1893 - 1094 σελίδες
...of his debt out of the corporate property, on which he had л right to rely. Aa the statute Imposée a burdensome liability on the officers for their wrongful...by the amount of his debt, it is as to him clearly remedial. To maintain suchb a suit Is not to administer a punishment im-g posed upon an offender agalnst'the... | |
 | 1912 - 1164 σελίδες
...capital stock, liable for all of its debts, is in no sense a criminal or quasi criminal law. * * * As the statute imposes a burdensome liability on the...by the amount of his debt, It Is as to him clearly remedial. To maintain such a suit is not to administer a punishment imposed upon an offender against... | |
 | 1910 - 1168 σελίδες
...the federal Constitution require the courts of Maryland to give it effect. It was said, however: "As the statute imposes a burdensome liability on the...act, It may well be considered penal in the sense thai It should be strictly construed," In Aylsworth v. Curtis, In discussing the distinction between... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1892 - 774 σελίδες
...security, for the payment of his debt out of the corporate property, on which he had a right to rely. As the statute imposes a burdensome liability on the...by the amount of his debt, it is as to him clearly remedial. To maintain such a suit is not to administer a punishment imposed upon an offender against... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1893 - 776 σελίδες
...security, for the payment of his debt out of the corporate property, on which lie had a right to rely. As the statute imposes a burdensome liability on the...by the amount of his debt, it is as to him clearly remedial. To maintain such a suit is not to administer a punishment imposed upon an offender against... | |
 | John Lewis - 1893 - 820 σελίδες
...security, for the payment of his debt out of the corporate property, on which he had a right to rely. As the statute imposes a burdensome liability on the...by the amount of his debt, it is as to him clearly remedial. To maintain such a suit is not to administer a punishment imposed upon an offender against... | |
 | Charles Burke Elliott - 1898 - 342 σελίδες
...security for the payment of his debt out of the corporate property, on which he had a right to rely. As the statute imposes a burdensome liability on the...by the amount of his debt it is as to him clearly remedial. To maintain such a suit is not to administer a punishment imposed upon an offender against... | |
 | 1898 - 1114 σελίδες
...security, for the payment of his debt out of the corporate property, on which he had a right to rely. As the statute imposes a burdensome liability on the...creditor only, and measured by the amount of his debt, it ia as to him clearly remedial. To maintain such a suit ia not to administer n punishment imposed upon... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - 1898 - 978 σελίδες
...corpo- enacting ration for making and signing false reports may be ^ry enforced without a state. " As the statute imposes a burdensome liability on the...strictly construed. But as it gives a civil remedy at the suit of the creditor only, and measured by the amount of his debt, it is as to him clearly remedial.... | |
 | John William Dwyer - 1899 - 540 σελίδες
...security, for the payment of his debt out of the corporate property, on which he had a right to rely. As the statute imposes a burdensome liability on the...by the amount of his debt, it is as to him clearly remedial. To maintain such a suit is not to administer a punishment imposed upon an offender against... | |
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As the statute imposes a burdensome liability on the officers for their wrongful act, it may well be considered penal, in the sense that it should be strictly construed. But as it gives a civil remedy, at the private suit of the creditor only, and measured... 
