The power of creating a corporation is never used for its own sake, but for the purpose of effecting something else. No sufficient reason is therefore perceived why it may not pass as incidental to those powers which are expressly given, if it be a direct... Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 434by 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
| D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 488 pages
...incorporated, but it is incorporated as the best means of being well governed. The power of creating a corporation is never used for its own sake, but for the purpose of effecting something else. No sufficient reason is therefore perceived why it may not pass as incidental to those powers which... | |
| Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...other powers are exercised, but a means by which other objects are accomplished. The power of creating a corporation is never used for its own sake, but for the purpose of effecting something else. It may, therefore, pass as incidental to those powers which are expressly given if it be a direct mode... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 954 pages
...powers are exercised, but a meanĀ« by which other objects are accomplished. . . .The power of creating n corporation is never used for its own sake, but for the purpose of effecting something else. No sufficient reason iSj therefore, perceived why it may not pass as incidental to those powere which... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 798 pages
...benefit of the nation. It is part of the fiscal means of the nation. Indeed, "the power of creating a corporation is never used for its own sake, but for the purpjse of effecting something else. "4 The bank is created for the purpose of facilitating all the... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...incorporated, but is incorporated as affording the best means of being well governed. The power of creating a corporation is never used for its own sake, but for the purpose of effecting something else. No sufficient reason is, therefore, perceived, why it may not pass as incidental to those powers which... | |
| James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 pages
...incorporated, but is incorporated as affording the best means of being well governed. The power of creating a corporation is never used for its own sake, but for the purpose of effecting something else. No sufficient reason is, therefore, perceived, why it may not pass as incidental to those powers which... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1896 - 812 pages
...incorporated, but it is incorporated as affording the best means of being well governed. The power of ereating a corporation is never used for its own sake, but for the purposes of effecting something else. No sufficient reason is, therefore, pereeived why it may not... | |
| Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy - Canada - 1897 - 936 pages
...incorporated as affording the best means of being well governed. . . In truth the power of creating a corporation is never used for its own sake ; but for the purpose of effecting something else. So that there is not a shadow of reason to say, that it may not pass as an incident to powers expressly... | |
| Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1898 - 702 pages
...incorporated, but is incorporated as affording the best means of being well governed. The power of creating a corporation is never used for its own sake, but for the puropse of effecting something else. No sufficient reason is, therefore, perceived, why it may not... | |
| 1899 - 976 pages
...Constitution. Campbell, J., in Swan v. Williams, 2 Mich. 434, quotes the statement that " the power of creating a corporation is never used for its own sake, but for the purpose of effecting something else," in holding a railroad being a quasi-public corporation may have land condemned to it under the power... | |
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