 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 704 pages
...nature of things, speaks of lhis feature of a corporation in this way : " A corporation is an ariificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in...which the charter of its creation confers upon it. Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality ; properties,... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 738 pages
...name." In Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636, Ch. J. MARSHALL said : "A corporation is au artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing...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, either... | |
 | Commercial law - 1847 - 554 pages
...4 Wheat. 636, the same principle was again decided by the Court. " A corporation," said the Court, "is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being a mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1848 - 786 pages
...territory for the franchise 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, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 680 pages
...misrepresentations of the promisee, is not a good defence. Ibid. See Equity, 12. Surety, 2. CORPORATIONS. 1. A corporation is an artificial being — invisible,...and 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... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...College, in which the following lucid exposition of that abstract phenomenon, a corporation, is given : "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...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... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 650 pages
...Justice Marshall, (4 Wheat., 636,) "is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only m contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law,...of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its existence. These art Mtch as are supposed best calculated to effect the objects... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 684 pages
...a corporation is considered an artificial being, existing 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, eithc' expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. Corporations created by statute must depend... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 664 pages
...this contract the state gave it power to do. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only tho&3 properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence. MARSHALL, Ch. J., Dartmouth College v. WoodCredit Company r.... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 674 pages
...Book 1, part 1, tit. 2, chap. 2. No. 180. It is, as it is well observed by Chief Justice Marshall, " an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. "(a) CHAPTER H.— OF THE CREATION OF A CORPORATION. 179. Unlike the law of England, which allows the... | |
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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... 
