 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - 1885 - 940 σελίδες
...invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation oi law. Iieing a mere creation of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter...such as are supposed best calculated to effect the objects for which it was created. Amou g the most important are immortality and, it the expression... | |
 | 1885 - 916 σελίδες
...being, invisible, intangibly 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... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - 1885 - 758 σελίδες
...compensation. " We fully agree that this corporation is the creature of the law, and that being such, ' it possesses only those properties which the charter...either expressly or as incidental to its very existence ; ' l and that grants of power to individuals to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad, as a... | |
 | 1885 - 896 σελίδες
...Company had no power to make the trust deed in question. I recognize the rule that a corporation " possesses only those properties which the charter...its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incident to its very existence." Head v. Providence Ins. Co., 2 Cranch, 127 (CORPORATIONS, §§ 1046-48);... | |
 | Henry Edwin Dwight - 1885 - 334 σελίδες
...the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its incorporation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence. Dartmouth College vs. Woodward, 4 Wheaton's R. 636, and other cases cited in Angell & Ames on Corporations,... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - 1890 - 478 σελίδες
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter...its very existence. These are such as are supposed beet calculated to effect the object for which it wa§ created. Among the most important are immortality,... | |
 | John Warwick Daniel - 1886 - 1054 σελίδες
...invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter...its very existence. These are such as are supposed to be best calculated to effect the object for which it is created."8 In endeavoring, then, to ascertain... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1886 - 828 σελίδες
...invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." So long as corporations act within their corporate powers they may bind the people within their corporate... | |
 | Henry Morrison Herman - 1886 - 952 σελίδες
...invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter...its creation confers upon it, either expressly or incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best caleulated to effect that object... | |
 | New Hampshire. Supreme Court - 1887 - 702 σελίδες
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." Opinion of C. .1. Marshall iu Dart. Coll. v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636. "A corporation is a creature of... | |
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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... 
