 A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of the law. Being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it either expressly or as incidental...  United States Supreme Court Reports - Strana 211autor/autoři: United States. Supreme Court - 1882Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 str.
...18i9. the act of incorporation ? Let this subject be -*"^^v"^fc' dered. Dartmouth . . . . ... College A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of b. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses oaly those properties which the charter of its creation... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 str.
...members of the civil government. Is it from the act of incorporation ? Let this subject be considered. A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in the contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which... | |
 | John Cleaveland - 1857 - 452 str.
...The Atscuort r,f Watrrtoxn, 1 Hill, 616, 620. CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL'S DEFINITION OF A CORPORATION. "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of Inw. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 str.
...passed the corporate property, but not the franchise. The Supreme Court of the Union have held, that a corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law, and possessing only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly... | |
 | Elliott Anthony - 1865 - 320 str.
...the .company, are also parties. The corporation itself, which is the offspring of the charter, and is an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law, is also, in a certain sense, a party. But as the latter can only act through the medium of its trustees,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1868 - 624 str.
...effect was given to it, and, therefore, it should not be presumed to have assented to such transfer. A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. The only mode to give notice, or to communicate knowledge, to such artificial being, invisible and... | |
 | William Nichols Coler - 1873 - 482 str.
...State, as much so as a public corporation. It has not inherent power and does not exist of itself. It is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. It is the mere creature and the creation of the State in which it exists, and has no power of its own.... | |
 | 1877 - 448 str.
...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 str.
...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... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1905 - 274 str.
...the Dartmouth College case, (4 Wheaton, 632,) that Chief Justice Marshall gave the definition that: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." It has the elements of immortality and of individuality. "The benefit to the public is considered as... | |
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