 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. Joint Committee on the Communication of the Auditor of State - 1821 - 76 σελίδες
...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...such as are supposed best calculated " to effect the objects for which it was created. " Among the most important, are immortality, and, **if the expression... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 952 σελίδες
...cannot exist. For we must here repeat, that this Court have said, that a corporation " possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation...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 - 1824 - 990 σελίδες
...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...upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its existence. These are such as arc supposed best calculated to effect the object for whieh'it was created.... | |
 | 1843 - 530 σελίδες
...being, existing only in contemplation of law ; and being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation...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 - 1837 - 868 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Samuel Alfred Foot - 1839 - 112 σελίδες
...law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it. * . * * Among the most important are immortality, and, if...persons are considered as the same, and may act as the single individual." [Dartmouth College vs. Woodward, 4 Wheat. Rep. 636.] • - f The existence... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 σελίδες
...in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law," continues the judge, " it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation...persons are considered as the same, and may act as 354 COR 355 the single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1844 - 800 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - 1846 - 872 σελίδες
...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...best calculated to effect the object for which it is created. Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality;... | |
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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... 
