 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...  Accountancy Problems with Solutions - Էջ 229Leo Greendlinger - 1911Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, James Bolesworth Bradwell - 1883 - 722 էջ
...corporation aggregate; and is. in the language of Chief Justice Marshall in the Dartmouth College case, "an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." How could such a being come into court and be examined orally touching anything? The thing bsing impossible,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1896 - 1244 էջ
...corporation. It is also true that there was no formal agreement upon the part of that corporation "as an artificial being, invisible, Intangible, and existing only In contemplation of law," that the titleb should ever be reconveyed to the Virginia^ corporation. But* when the Inquiry Involves*'... | |
 | 1884 - 1062 էջ
...Wheat., 636, the same principle was again decided by the court. " A corporation," said the court, " is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation, of law. Being a mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - 1884 - 778 էջ
...phrase, " to do business," is a matter of elaborate argument by counsel. A corporation is defined to be "an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law." It can do no acts, either within or without the State which creates it, except such as are authorized... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - 1885 - 940 էջ
...Justice Marshall in Dartmouth CoUsye v. Woodworth 4 Wheat. (526 thus describes such artificial person : "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation oi law. Iieing a mere creation of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - 1885 - 758 էջ
...Chief- Justice MARSHALL, in a leading case upon this brandi of the law, says: " A corporal ion is un artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being a mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1885 - 912 էջ
...responsibility. " There are not wanting authorities taking the like distinction, affirming that as a corporation " is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in the contemplation of law," to which the law cannot impart animus, passion, or moral quality; which... | |
 | 1893 - 1176 էջ
...personality distinct from that of ItH members. As denned by Chief Justice Marshall, "a corporation ts an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law." "Among the most Important [of its attributes] are Immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1886 - 828 էջ
...(Dillon on Mun. Corp. sec. 9.) Chief Justice MARSHALL'S description of a corporation is in these words: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either... | |
 | Henry Morrison Herman - 1886 - 952 էջ
...AS APPLIED TO CORPORATIONS. SECTION 1165. A corporation, in the language of Chief Justice Marshall, is " an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and...in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either... | |
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