 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 confers upon...  John Marshall: Complete Constitutional Decisions - Pagina 314door John Marshall - 1903 - 799 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Henry Edwin Dwight - 1885 - 334 pagina’s
...Domat's Civil Law (folio edition), vol. 1st, Book 1 Tit. 11, " of usufruct," s. 2, pl. 3 & 4, p. 197. A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible,...possesses only those properties which the charter of its incorporation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence. Dartmouth College... | |
 | 1885 - 896 pagina’s
...Company had no power to make the trust deed in question. I recognize the rule that a corporation " possesses only those properties which the charter...its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incident to its very existence." Head v. Providence Ins. Co., 2 Cranch, 127 (CORPORATIONS, §§ 1046-48);... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - 1885 - 940 pagina’s
...Justice Marshall in Dartmouth CoUsye v. Woodworth 4 Wheat. (526 thus describes such artificial person : "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation oi law. Iieing a mere creation of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - 1885 - 758 pagina’s
...Chief- Justice MARSHALL, in a leading case upon this brandi of the law, says: " A corporal ion is un 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... | |
 | 1893 - 1176 pagina’s
...personality distinct from that of ItH members. As denned by Chief Justice Marshall, "a corporation ts an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law." "Among the most Important [of its attributes] are Immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed,... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1885 - 912 pagina’s
...responsibility. " There are not wanting authorities taking the like distinction, affirming that as a corporation " is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in the contemplation of law," to which the law cannot impart animus, passion, or moral quality; which... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1886 - 828 pagina’s
...(Dillon on Mun. Corp. sec. 9.) Chief Justice MARSHALL'S description of a corporation is in these words: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...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... | |
 | Henry Morrison Herman - 1886 - 952 pagina’s
...AS APPLIED TO CORPORATIONS. SECTION 1165. A corporation, in the language of Chief Justice Marshall, is " an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and...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 Warwick Daniel - 1886 - 1054 pagina’s
...character.2 § 378. Definition of corporation. — Chief-Justice Marshall has well denned a corporation as "an 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... | |
 | 1886 - 834 pagina’s
...it may become an artificial being, or acting entity. Such a corporation has been well defined to be an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. The instruments provided to bring the artificial being into life and active operation , are the persons... | |
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