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... officers , stockholders , and those dealing with them , it is necessary that the distinction between the corporation , as a legal entity , and its members , be strictly main- tained . The note sued upon was not a debt of the original ...
... officers , stockholders , and those dealing with them , it is necessary that the distinction between the corporation , as a legal entity , and its members , be strictly main- tained . The note sued upon was not a debt of the original ...
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... officers and agents , whose acts are those of the corporation only as they are within the powers and purposes of the corporation . In an ordinary co - partnership the members of it act as natural persons and as agents for each other ...
... officers and agents , whose acts are those of the corporation only as they are within the powers and purposes of the corporation . In an ordinary co - partnership the members of it act as natural persons and as agents for each other ...
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... officers or servants , who may be wholly unable to answer the compensation which the jury may award , apply with equal force to actions for malicious . prosecution . When the nature of the action is considered , it comes strictly within ...
... officers or servants , who may be wholly unable to answer the compensation which the jury may award , apply with equal force to actions for malicious . prosecution . When the nature of the action is considered , it comes strictly within ...
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... officers , has been considered , in the case of Brokaw v . The New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Co. , supra ... officer wielding the whole executive power of the corporation , it could not be so held liable for the act of the ...
... officers , has been considered , in the case of Brokaw v . The New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Co. , supra ... officer wielding the whole executive power of the corporation , it could not be so held liable for the act of the ...
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... officers , shall be held punishable by fine because of the knowledge and intent of its agents to whom it has ... officer , agent , or other person act- ing for or employed by any common carrier acting within the scope of his employment ...
... officers , shall be held punishable by fine because of the knowledge and intent of its agents to whom it has ... officer , agent , or other person act- ing for or employed by any common carrier acting within the scope of his employment ...
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Page 292 - 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...
Page 600 - No corporation shall issue stock or bonds, except for money paid, labor done, or property actually received, and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.
Page 58 - Columbia, or to any foreign country, any article or commodity, other than timber and the manufactured products thereof, manufactured, mined, or produced by it, or under its authority, or which it may own in whole or in part, or in whicn it may have any interest, direct, or indirect...
Page 105 - 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 to its 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, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality; properties, by which a perpetual...
Page 242 - No association shall make any loan or discount on the security of the shares of its own capital stock, nor be the purchaser or holder of any such shares, unless such security or purchase shall be necessary to prevent loss upon a debt previously contracted in good faith...
Page 532 - To divide, withdraw, or in any manner pay to the stockholders, or any of them, any part of the capital stock of the corporation ; or to reduce such capital stock without the consent of the legislature ; or 3.
Page 18 - When construing and enforcing the provisions of this act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any...
Page 130 - Every such increase or reduction must be authorized either by the unanimous consent of the stockholders, expressed in writing and filed in the office of the secretary of state and in the office of the clerk of the county in which the...
Page 328 - The objection, that a contract is immoral or illegal as between plaintiff and defendant, sounds at all times very ill in the mouth of the defendant.
Page 174 - ... a copy thereof, duly certified by the secretary of state, under the great seal of the State of Ohio, shall be evidence of the existence of such company.