 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 408 էջ
...faculty, and not as a company BANK US of individuals, who, in transacting their joint con- J)EV^DX cerns, may use a legal name, they must be excluded from the courts of the uniop. The duties of this court, to exercise jurisdiction where it is conferred, and not to usurp it... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1852 - 736 էջ
...corporation be considered as a mere faculty, and not as a company of individuals, who in transacting*their joint concerns may use a legal name, they must be excluded from the courts of the Union. The corporate name cannot indeed be either an alien or a citizen, but the persons whom it represents may... | |
 | 1868 - 894 էջ
...it belongs to the state, we have no right to surrender it. In the language of the Supreme Court, " the duties of this court to exercise jurisdiction...therefore, and the law are to be expounded without leaning the one way or the other:" Banlc of US v.Deveaux, 5 Cranch Rep. 87. It is not necessary in... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 788 էջ
...diffidence in making the bounds of its power. It declared that " the duties of the court, to exercise a jurisdiction where it is conferred, and not to usurp...where it is not conferred, are of equal obligation," and in this spirit, rejected a jurisdiction over a case exactly like the present. The doctrine of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1872 - 1274 էջ
...name. If the corporation be considered as a mere faculty, and not as a company of individuals, who, iu transacting their joint concerns, may use a legal...must be excluded from the courts of the Union." The court held that the corporation could sue and he sued if all its stockholders were citizens of the... | |
 | 1877 - 510 էջ
...exercised in their corporate name. If the corporation be considered as a mere faculty, and not as a company of individuals, who in transacting their joint concerns...must be excluded from the courts of the Union." The ruling in this case was that "the capacity of a corporation aggregate to sue in" the courts of this... | |
 | 1877 - 510 էջ
...exercised in their corporate name. If the corporation be considered as a mere faculty, and not as a company of individuals, who in transacting their joint concerns...may use a legal name, they must be excluded from the courte of the Union." The ruling in this case was that "the capacity of a corporation aggregate to... | |
 | 1923 - 1092 էջ
...duty is plain. Chief Justice Marshall, in Bank v. De Veaux, 9 US (5 Cranch) &, 3 L. Ed. 38, said : • "The duties of this court, to exercise jurisdiction...where It is not conferred, are of equal obligation." there are doubtless reasons why the Federal Reserve Bank should be considered an inhabitant of every... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 866 էջ
...their corporate name. If the corporation *be [*87 considered as a mere faculty, and not as a company of individuals, who, in transacting their joint concerns,...The duties of this court, to exercise jurisdiction whent it is conferred, and not to usurp it where it is not conferred, are of equal obligation. The... | |
 | 1885 - 916 էջ
...exercised in their corporate name. If the corporation be considered as a mere faculty, and not as a company of individuals, who, in transacting their joint concerns,...of this court, to exercise jurisdiction where it is conferreJ, and not to usurp it where it is not conferred, are of equal obligation. The constitution,... | |
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... entity, a corporation aggregate, is certainly not a citizen; and, consequently, cannot sue or be sued in the courts of the United States, unless the rights of the members, in this respect, can be exercised in their corporate name. If the corporation... 
