A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York - Side 257av New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1864Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 sider
...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... | |
| John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 sider
...Dartmouth College against Woodward, 4 Wheat. Rep. 636, Chief Justice Marshall describes a corporation to be "an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing...contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law," continues the judge, " it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - 1878 - 738 sider
...name." In Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636, Ch. J. MARSHALL said : "A corporation is au artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing...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... | |
| 1847 - 554 sider
...4 Wheat. 636, the same principle was again decided by the Court. " A corporation," said the Court, "is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being a mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1849 - 680 sider
...misrepresentations of the promisee, is not a good defence. Ibid. See Equity, 12. Surety, 2. CORPORATIONS. 1. A corporation is an artificial being — invisible,...and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon... | |
| John Bouvier - 1854 - 674 sider
...Book 1, part 1, tit. 2, chap. 2. No. 180. It is, as it is well observed by Chief Justice Marshall, " an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. "(a) CHAPTER H.— OF THE CREATION OF A CORPORATION. 179. Unlike the law of England, which allows the... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
| Massachusetts - 1895 - 1138 sider
...now under discussion. Regarded as a creature of the sovereign, a corporation has been defined to be " an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law." As such, it is obvious that there can be no such thing as a corporation which owes its existence to... | |
| Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1859 - 736 sider
...Bl. Com. 467, 469. Marshall, C. J. 4 Whcaton's R. 518,636. Thompson, J. 14 Peters1 R. 122, 129. — An artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Marshall, C. 'J. 4 Wheaton's R. 636.— A franchise possessed by one or more individuals, who subsist... | |
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