 | American Philosophical Society - 1895 - 568 str.
...liabilities " (Holland's Jur.t pp. 74, 7S). In our law a corporation is defined by Chief Justice Marshal as " an artificial being, Invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law" (Dartmouth w. Woodward, 4 Wheat Rep., 626). " It was chiefly," says Chancellor Kent, " for the purpose... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1909 - 494 str.
...attentive consideration. — John Marshall : Constitutional Decisions. 10. Corporations. 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... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1896 - 850 str.
...corporations? There is general agreement in the use of CJ Marshall's description of a corporation, viz.: "An artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." We are also generally agreed in taking for granted the doctrine of public corporations, familiar since... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1898 - 184 str.
...primogeniture; in its place we now have immortality. A corporation, said Chief Justice Marshall, "is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Among its most important properties are immortality, and if the expression may be allowed, individuality;... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1896 - 812 str.
...goverument. Is it from the act of incorporation ? Let this subject be considered. A corporation is an artificial being — invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being tho mere ereature of law, it possesses only these properties which the character of its ereation... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1896 - 762 str.
...corporation. It is also true that there was no formal agreement upon the part of that corporation " as an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law," that the title should ever be reconveyed to the Virginia corporation. But Opinion of the Court. when... | |
 | Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest - 1898 - 218 str.
...not their agents, but the agents of the premium payers. Before that era, it had been understood that a corporation — an artificial being, invisible,...intangible, and existing only In contemplation of law — was capable of acting only by agents. But these corporations, pretending to act without agents,... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - 1898 - 702 str.
...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 contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the' charter of its creation... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - 1898 - 978 str.
...creation, or at any subsequent period of its existence." 1 Kyd on Corp., 13 (AD 1798). " 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... | |
 | 1897 - 360 str.
...an immortal being. In the celebrated Dartmouth College case his dictum was, that: "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 character of its creation... | |
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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... 
