 | 1919 - 1082 sider
...incorporation? Let this subject be considered. A corporation is an artificial being, Invisible, intangible, and existing only In contemplation of law. Being the...Incidental to Its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it wns created. Among the most important... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1888 - 982 sider
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being a mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." Secondly, it is objected that by the common law the plaintiff is not capable of being an administrator.... | |
 | Montana. Supreme Court, Henry Nichols Blake - 1888 - 696 sider
...definition of how far the territorial legislatures may go. A corporation possesses no powers except those which the charter of its creation confers upon it,...expressly or as incidental to its very existence. Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636. The right to corporate power is a special privilege which... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1911 - 680 sider
...corporation. It is but the creature of the Legislature. It "possesses only those rights, powers or property which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its existence." The source from which it has secured its right to enter into contracts is the Legislature,... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1888 - 808 sider
...this question arising under the Constitution. See § 10. 4 A corporation is a creature of the law, and possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it. Marshall, CJ, in Trustees of Dartmouth College r. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636. 1 $ 7. See § 6, notes. They... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1889 - 648 sider
...clearness, defined a corporation thus: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only 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... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1890 - 840 sider
...accuracy and felicitous expression : " A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only 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... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1890 - 876 sider
...general accuracy and felicitous expression: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only 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... | |
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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... 
