 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 952 էջ
...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 to its existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which'it was created.... | |
 | 1843 - 530 էջ
...contemplation of law ; and being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers 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 them, upon... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 էջ
...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 to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 էջ
...mere creature of law," continues the judge, " it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers 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 created. Among... | |
 | 1847 - 554 էջ
...contemplation of law. Being a mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence." And in the case of the Bank of the United States vs. Dandridge, 12 Wheat. 64, where the questions in... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1848 - 786 էջ
...law applicable to this and other corporations. i;It possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers 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 created." Opinion... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1849 - 680 էջ
...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 to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. [2.]... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 էջ
...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 to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created—among... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1854 - 650 էջ
...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 to its existence. These art Mtch as are supposed best calculated to effect the objects for which it was created."... | |
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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... 
