 | Robert Alexander Harrison - Liquor laws - 1874 - 1262 pages
...18 UCCP 13; see also the decision of the Common Pleas in The Queen v. Yorkville, 22 UCCP 437, 440.) "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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 778 pages
...the entire contract on both sides. Before that era, it had been understoood that a corporation — an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law — was capable of acting only by agents. But corporations, pretending to act without agents, exhibited... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 966 pages
...kind of business like a natural person." Bronson, J., People v. Assessors of Watertown, 1 Hill, 620. " A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible,...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... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), Josiah Hooker Bissell - District courts - 1875 - 598 pages
...Company had no power to make the trust deed in question. I recognize the rule that a corporation " possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incident to its very, existence."1 Under the Indiana Constitution, every statute is a public... | |
 | Henry Morrison Herman - Executions (Law) - 1876 - 906 pages
...practice is by making a bill of sale of the actual interest. § 360. EXECUTIONS AGAINST CORPORATIONS. A corporation " is an artificial being, invisible,...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... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 762 pages
...Wheaton, 518, Chief Justice Marshall says "a corporation is an artificial being, the mere creature of the law; it possesses only those properties which the...of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its existence." And in Providence Sank v. Billings, 4 Peters, 514, the same judge... | |
 | Law - 1876 - 816 pages
...Chief Justice MARSHALL, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518, " is the mere creature of the law ; it possesses only those properties which the...of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence ;" and as was expressed by the same great judge, in Providence... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 842 pages
...Telegraph Co. Conceding, as we do, that the national bank, defendant, " being the more creatnre of the law, possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it" (Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518), and conceding as we may (but without deciding it), that... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 882 pages
...Wheaton, ol)S, Chief Justice MARSHALL says "a corporation is an artificial being, the mere creature of the law ; it possesses only those properties which the...of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its existence." And in Providence Bankv. Jit/lings, -I Peters, 514, the same judge... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 448 pages
...The words of article 793 are : Every corporation is bound to maintain the roads, &c., &c., &c. Now, a corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law, or in the language of our Civil Code, article 352, it is an artificial or ideal person. I am at a loss... | |
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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... 
