 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
 | John Warwick Daniel - 1886 - 1054 էջ
...character.2 § 378. Definition of corporation. — Chief-Justice Marshall has well denned a corporation as "an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing...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... | |
 | Victor Morawetz - 1886 - 630 էջ
...Corporation. — A corporation was described by Chief Justice Marshall, in the Dartmouth College Case,1 as " an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." A corporation has also been designated a legal entity, a creature of the law, a legal institution,... | |
 | 1886 - 834 էջ
...it may become an artificial being, or acting entity. Such a corporation has been well defined to be an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. The instruments provided to bring the artificial being into life and active operation , are the persons... | |
 | 1916 - 948 էջ
...not a solid reality about the dinners of the Corporation of London. "It is," said Marshall, CJ, 10 "an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law" . . . "it is precisely," he says again, "what the act of incorporation makes it." "Persons," said Best,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1888 - 982 էջ
...and Ames on Corporations, sec. 271. In Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636, the court says: "A corporation 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... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1889 - 648 էջ
...4 Wheat, 636, Chief Justice Marshall,. with great force and clearness, defined a corporation thus: "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... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1889 - 920 էջ
...foreign corporations. § 332. Definition of Corporation — The Different Classes of Corporations. — A corporation is "an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law."1 It is " a natural person or body of persons upon whom has been conferred a distinct legal existence... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1890 - 876 էջ
...Marshall's description of a corporation is remarkable for its general accuracy and felicitous expression: "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... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1890 - 840 էջ
...Marshall's description of a corporation is remarkable for its general accuracy and felicitous expression : " A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible,...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... | |
 | 1890 - 624 էջ
...largely the history of corporations. The facility with which such a body may be created, the value of " an artificial being invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law,"* for the purposes of combinations in trade, have made the corporation almost the sole agency from which... | |
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