A General Digest of the Law of Corporations: Presenting the American Adjudications Upon Public and Private Corporations of Every Kind. With a Full Selection of English Cases |
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... land devised , and " to choose agents to institute or defend any suit or suits , and act anything relative thereto , " will au- thorize the agents to make an entry on the land , on which to found a writ of entry . See Sutton v Cole , 3 ...
... land devised , and " to choose agents to institute or defend any suit or suits , and act anything relative thereto , " will au- thorize the agents to make an entry on the land , on which to found a writ of entry . See Sutton v Cole , 3 ...
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... land . It ap- does not stand as trustee for the bank for any peared that the company had taken gravel profit he may realize by buying at such price ; from the land , and had paid the interest on provided he acts in good faith . N. Y. Ct ...
... land . It ap- does not stand as trustee for the bank for any peared that the company had taken gravel profit he may realize by buying at such price ; from the land , and had paid the interest on provided he acts in good faith . N. Y. Ct ...
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... lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands & c . to give credit to any undergraduate are apportioned , and from the sales of land - scrip of a college , without consent of the pre- hereinbefore provided for , shall be invested in ...
... lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands & c . to give credit to any undergraduate are apportioned , and from the sales of land - scrip of a college , without consent of the pre- hereinbefore provided for , shall be invested in ...
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... land and land - scrip hereby authorized shall be made on the following con- ditions , to which the previous assent of the sev- eral States shall be signified by legislative acts : 1. If the fund invested be diminished or lost , it shall ...
... land and land - scrip hereby authorized shall be made on the following con- ditions , to which the previous assent of the sev- eral States shall be signified by legislative acts : 1. If the fund invested be diminished or lost , it shall ...
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... land taken by the company , may be applied to the interest of a turnpike company in land covered by their road , and in the road itself , as being a species of tangible prop- erty . Vt . Supreme Ct . 1849 , White River Turnpike Co. v ...
... land taken by the company , may be applied to the interest of a turnpike company in land covered by their road , and in the road itself , as being a species of tangible prop- erty . Vt . Supreme Ct . 1849 , White River Turnpike Co. v ...
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Page 177 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts...
Page 485 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 58 - Seventh. To exercise by its board of directors, or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt; by receiving deposits; by buying and selling exchange, coin and bullion; by loaning money on personal security; and by obtaining, issuing and circulating notes according to the provisions of this Title.
Page 61 - The taking, receiving, reserving, or charging a rate of interest greater than is allowed by the preceding section, when knowingly done, shall be deemed a forfeiture of the entire interest which the note, bill, or other evidence of debt carries with it, or which has been agreed to be paid thereon.
Page 62 - All national banking associations, designated for that purpose by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be depositaries of public money, except receipts from customs, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary; and they may also be employed as financial agents of the government; and they shall perform all such reasonable duties as depositaries of public moneys and financial agents of the government, as may be required of them.
Page 62 - ... made after the commission of an act of insolvency, or in contemplation thereof, made with a view to prevent the application of its assets in the manner prescribed by this chapter, or with a View to the preference of one creditor to another, except in payment of its circulating notes, shall be utterly null and void...
Page 177 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 154 - Any privileges which may exempt it from the burdens common to individuals do not flow necessarily from the charter, but must be expressed in it, or they do not exist.
Page 218 - It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
Page 60 - If no bidder can be found who will pay for such stock the amount due thereon to the association, and the cost of advertisement and sale, the amount previously paid shall be forfeited to the association, and such stock shall be sold as the directors may order, within six months from the time of such forfeiture, and if not sold it shall be canceled and deducted from the capital stock of the association.