 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...supposedly calculated to effect the object for which it was at ated. Among the most important are immortafo and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality properties, by which a perpetual succession of BMJ persons are considered as the same, and may acts a single individual. They enable a -corporation... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important are immortality,...many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold property without... | |
 | Samuel Alfred Foot - Banking law - 1839 - 112 pages
...law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it. * . * * Among the most important are immortality, and, if...many persons are considered as the same, and may act as the single individual." [Dartmouth College vs. Woodward, 4 Wheat. Rep. 636.] • - f The existence... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important are immortality,...many persons are considered as the same, and may act as 354 COR 355 the single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 704 pages
...creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it. Among the most important are immortality, and, if...allowed, individuality ; properties, by which a perpetual successon of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. Dartmouth... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created—among the most important are, immortality, and if the expression...many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual." The question in this case was, whether the law of the State abolishing its... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...its existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important are immortality,...many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold property without... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 674 pages
...very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important are immortality,...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 564 pages
...character and properties " of individuality on a collective and changing body of men. " By those means, perpetual succession of many persons " are considered as the same, and may act as an indivi" dual, thereby enabled to manage its own affairs, and to " hold property without the perplexing... | |
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Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality — properties by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. 
