 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 952 էջ
...by this Court: " A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law,...supposed best calculated to effect the object for which'it was created. Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed,... | |
 | 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...upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence."" This position involves several inquiries, which may be embraced in an examination... | |
 | 1843 - 530 էջ
...corporation is considered an artificial being, existing only in contemplation of law ; and being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties...upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence. Corporations created by statute must depend for their powers, and the mode of exercising... | |
 | 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
...subject be considered. A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law....upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was... | |
 | Samuel Alfred Foot - 1839 - 112 էջ
...corporation in this way : " A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law,...which the charter of its creation confers upon it. * . * * Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality;... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 էջ
...and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law," continues the judge, " it possesses only those properties which the charter...upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - 1846 - 872 էջ
...corporation," says the Chief Justice, " is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law,...upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it is... | |
 | 1846 - 632 էջ
...which are entitled to more weight. We are informed that a corporation possesses only those powers or properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, oras incidental to its very existence. — Dartmouth College vs. Woodward. The incidental or implied... | |
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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... 
