 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 966 páginas
...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 - 1875 - 598 páginas
...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...creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incident to its very, existence."1 Under the Indiana Constitution, every statute is a public law of... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1876 - 762 páginas
...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...either expressly or as incidental to its existence." And in Providence Sank v. Billings, 4 Peters, 514, the same judge says: " The great object of an incorporation... | |
 | 1876 - 816 páginas
...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...upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence ;" and as was expressed by the same great judge, in Providence Bonk v. Billings, 4 Pet.... | |
 | Henry Morrison Herman - 1876 - 906 páginas
...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... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1876 - 842 páginas
...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 - 1877 - 882 páginas
...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...either expressly or as incidental to its existence." And in Providence Bankv. Jit/lings, -I Peters, 514, the same judge says : " The great object of an... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1881 - 678 páginas
...Woodward, held that a corporation " being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only those powers which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence." 4 Wheat. 636. The same doctrine is again laid down by the Supreme Court of the United... | |
 | 1877 - 448 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1877 - 430 páginas
...France, nor in the United States of America. The Bar of Lower Canada having become a corporation, that is, an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law, and the right of the members to practice the profession having become a corporate franchise, in lieu... | |
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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... 
