 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1984 - 950 str.
...attributes, and exciting thought or feelings <the Supreme Being) <a human being) <a corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law — John Marshall) <a period during which there exist in the universe beings capable of speculating... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht - 1989 - 782 str.
...outside recognized [462 US 629] that an incorporated entity — described by Chief Justice Marshall as "an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law"" — is not to be regarded as legally separate from its owners in all circumstances. Thus, where a corporate... | |
 | Académie de droit international de La Haye - 1990 - 420 str.
...what US Chief Justice John Marshall said about another common conception, the corporation : "[I]t is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 US (4 Wheat.) 518, 636 (1819). In the international system,... | |
 | David Ehrenfeld - 1993 - 233 str.
...human tendency to drop alien pigs, horses, and donkeys around the landscape. Loyalty 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... | |
 | Phillip I. Blumberg - 1993 - 337 str.
...the corporation, Chief Justice Marshall described the corporation in vivid terms: "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 N. Butler, Larry E. Ribstein - 1995 - 236 str.
...great corporation case in this country, Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward.™ 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 that the charter of its creation... | |
 | John Rogers Commons - 434 str.
...Sir Edward Coke and the ideas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, described a corporation as "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... | |
 | William J. Novak - 1996 - 412 str.
...classic statement appeared in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518 (1819), 636: "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... | |
 | R. P. Maheshwari - 1997 - 324 str.
...portion of the capital to which each member is entitled is his share." — Lord Lindley "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law. Being a mere creation of law, it possesses only the properties which the charter of its creation confers... | |
 | László Halpern, Charles Wyplosz - 1998 - 418 str.
...British firm may have been a company. but in most cases it wasn'ta corporation. We understand by the term 'corporation' 'An artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. It is exclusively the work of the law, and the best evidence is the grant of corporate powers by 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... 
