| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 952 pages
...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 existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which'it was created.... | |
| Law - 1843 - 530 pages
...only in contemplation of law ; and being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it,...expressly or as incidental to its very existence. Corporations created by statute must depend for their powers, and the mode of exercising them, upon... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...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,...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... | |
| John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...of law. Being the mere creature of law," continues the judge, " it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it,...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... | |
| Commercial law - 1847 - 554 pages
...only in contemplation of law. Being a mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it,...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence." And in the case of the Bank of the United States vs. Dandridge, 12 Wheat. 64, where the questions in... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 738 pages
...only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it,...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed to be best calculated to effect the object for which it is created."... | |
| Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1848 - 786 pages
...granted. Principles of law applicable to this and other corporations. i;It possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it,...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." Opinion... | |
| Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 814 pages
...corporate powers. Atckafalaya Bank v. Duwson, 13 La. 497. A corporation, being the creature of the law, possesses only those powers which the charter of its...expressly or as incidental to its very existence. That corporations created by statute must depend for their powers and the mode of exercising them upon... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 680 pages
...existing only in contemplation of law. Being the creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it,...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. Frederick et al. vs. The City Council of Augusta, - 561 See Augusta, 1, 2. Constitution, 8. Evidence,... | |
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