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... Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 433by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, William Jennison, Elijah W. Meddaugh, Hovey K. Clarke, William Dudley Fuller, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1854Full view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 990 pages
...without it, it cannot exist. For we must here repeat, that this Court have said, that a corporation " possesses only those properties which the charter...upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence."" This position involves several inquiries, which may be embraced in an examination... | |
| Law - 1843 - 530 pages
...corporation is considered an artificial being, existing only in contemplation of law ; and being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties...upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence. Corporations created by statute must depend for their powers, and the mode of exercising... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...subject be considered. A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law....upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was... | |
| Samuel Alfred Foot - Banking law - 1839 - 112 pages
...corporation in this way : " A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law,...which the charter of its creation confers upon it. * . * * Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality;... | |
| John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law," continues the judge, " it possesses only those properties which the charter...upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was... | |
| Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - Business enterprises - 1846 - 872 pages
...corporation," says the Chief Justice, " is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law,...upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it is... | |
| Commerce - 1846 - 632 pages
...which are entitled to more weight. We are informed that a corporation possesses only those powers or properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, oras incidental to its very existence. — Dartmouth College vs. Woodward. The incidental or implied... | |
| New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 704 pages
...corporation in this way : " A corporation is an ariificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law,...which the charter of its creation confers upon it. Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality ; properties,... | |
| Commercial law - 1847 - 554 pages
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being a mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the...upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence." And in the case of the Bank of the United States vs. Dandridge, 12 Wheat. 64, where... | |
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