 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...single individual. They enable a -corporation :. manage its own affairs, and to hold property «*K the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the purposot transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chieflj fif the purpose of clothing bodies of men,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 952 pages
...individuality ; properties by which a perpetual succession of 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 Lold property, without the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity of perpetual... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 990 pages
...individuality; properties by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act. as a single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own -a flairs, and to hold property, without the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...individuality ; properties, by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation...conveyances for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand.(^It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities... | |
 | James R. Hope - 1840 - 76 pages
...and its individuality, and then he said, " They enable a corporation to manage " its own affairs, or to hold property, without the " perplexing intricacies,...endless " necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the pur" pose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is " chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as 354 COR 355 the single individual. They enable a corporation to manage...intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity of perpetual conveyance for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chieffy for the purpose of clothing... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 796 pages
...— properties, by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation...purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chieffy for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession with these qualities and capacities,... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 704 pages
...Marshall, " by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as the single individual. They enable a corporation to manage...the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand." Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636. Angel fy Ames on Corp. 2. A peculiar sort of individuality,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1848 - 1046 pages
...so long as a succession of individual members of the corporation remains, and can be kept up. It was chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession, with the qualities and capacities of one single, artificial, and fictitious being, that corporations were... | |
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It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession with these qualities and capacities that corporations were invented and arc in use. By these means, a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for the promotion of... 
