 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 էջ
...invisible, intangible, and existing only in the 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.... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - 1887 - 664 էջ
...this contract the state gave it power to do. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only tho&3 properties which the charter of its creation confers...expressly or as incidental to its very existence. MARSHALL, Ch. J., Dartmouth College v. WoodCredit Company r. Howe Machine Co. ward, 4 Wheaton, 536.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1854 - 684 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 of its creation confers upon it, eithc' expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. Corporations created by statute must depend... | |
 | California. Legislature. Assembly - 1855 - 956 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...expressly or as incidental to its very existence. These properties," continues he, " enable a corporation to manage its own affairs and to hold property without... | |
 | John Cleaveland - 1857 - 452 էջ
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of Inw. 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."— Dartmouth Collrge v. Woodward, 4 Wluaton, R. 686. MK. KYD'S DensiTiON or A CORFORATIOS.... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 էջ
...in contemplation of law ; that its powers are those declared by the statutes creating it, and that it possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. That a corporation can have no legal existence out of the sovereignty by which it is created, as it... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 էջ
...liable to the control of the legislature. Ibid. 18. A corporation, beinc the mere creature of the law, possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly or as incidental to its very existence. Ibid. 636. 19. A charter of incorporation is a franchise, and an incorporeal hereditament issuing out... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1860 - 716 էջ
...the language of Ch. J. Marshall, a corporation "possesses only those properties which the character of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence." (Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636.) It has no other powers than such as are specifically... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1861 - 590 էջ
...is conceded by the counsel for the plaintiffs, that a corporation, "being the mere creature of law, possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence." As an incident, it is contended that this company had the power to acquire, hold, and dispose of lands;... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1864 - 674 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...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." Chief Justice HOSMER, of Connecticut, asserts the same doctrine in the cases of the NY Fire Insurance... | |
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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... 
