 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 էջ
...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 էջ
...invisible, intangible, and existing only in "contemplation of law. Being the mere creature " of law, it possesses only those properties, which " the charter...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 - 990 էջ
...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 - 1824 - 952 էջ
...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.... | |
 | 1843 - 530 էջ
...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 - 1837 - 868 էջ
...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 - 1839 - 762 էջ
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law. it possesses only those properties which the charter...persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold property without... | |
 | Samuel Alfred Foot - 1839 - 112 էջ
...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;... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1844 - 800 էջ
...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... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - 1846 - 872 էջ
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties, which the charter...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... 
