 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1879 - 584 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...immortality and, if the expression may be allowed, i1ulivij11ality ; properties by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the... | |
 | Henry Edward Wallace - 1879 - 676 էջ
...State, by direct or indirect grant, and by them accepted. A corporation being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly or as incidental to its very existence; but this implies a right or authority to confer on individuals the special privileges or franchises... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 912 էջ
...How. 16 ; Runyan v. Coster's Lessee, 14 Pet. 122. " A corporation, being the mere creature of law, possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence." MARSHALL, CJ, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518, 636. "An incidental power is one that... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 886 էջ
...petition cannot be enforced. "A corporation, being the creature of the law, possesses only those powers which the charter of its creation confers upon it,...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." 7 La. Ann. 314. "The modern doctrine," says Chancellor KENT, '• is to consider corporations as having... | |
 | George Washington Field - 1881 - 620 էջ
...4 How., 16; Runyan v. Coster's Lessee, 14 Pet., 122. "A corporation being the mere creature of law, possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." MARSHALL, CJ, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat., 518, 636. "An incidental power is one that... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1889 - 1162 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...its creation confers upon it, either expressly or incidental to its very existence." Subsequently he added that "the great object of an incorporation... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1882 - 734 էջ
...corporation existing otherwise than by a charter, which is within the memory of man and can be proved. the charter of its creation confers upon it, either...individuality; properties by which a perpetual succession of persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation to... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1883 - 1240 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...incidental to its very existence. These are such as were supposed uest calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important... | |
 | Canada. Superintendent of Insurance - 1882 - 540 էջ
...invisible, intangible, and •existing only in tho contemplation of law. Being tho mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. * _ * * Among the most important are immortality (in the legal sense, that it may be capable of indefinite... | |
 | 1882 - 882 էջ
...unnecessary. It gave them the essential attributes of corporations, of which, says Ch. J. Marshall " among the most important are immortality and, if the...properties, by which a perpetual succession of many persons may be considered the same and may act as a single individual." Dartmouth College vs. Woodward, supra.... | |
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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... 
