 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1806 - 476 halaman
...it is otherwise. The act of incorporation is to them an enabling act ; it . gives them all the power they possess ; it enables them to contract, and when...instrument no more creates a contract than if the body had never been incorporated. It is then the opinion of this court, that the circuit court erred in... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1827 - 682 halaman
...act of incorporation is, to them, an enabling act. It gives them all the power they possess. It 1827. enables them to contract; and when it prescribes to...of contracting, they must observe that mode, or the oa the ' nstrument no more creates a contract than if the body had v. never been incorporated." Dandridge.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1836 - 792 halaman
...enables it to contract ; and when it prescribes the mode of contracting, that mode must be observed, or the instrument no more creates a contract, than if the body had never been incorporated. (b) Lord Eldon has said, "it is necessary to confine the powers given... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - 1843 - 768 halaman
...enables it to contract, and when it prescribes the mode of contracting, that mode must be observed, or the instrument no more creates a contract, than if the body had never been incorporated. Besides, when its agents do not clothe their proceedings with those solemnities... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 halaman
...existence it is otherwise. The act of incorporation is to them an enabling act; it gives them all the power they possess; it enables them to contract, and when...instrument no more creates a contract than if the body, had never been incorporated. It is upon a principle somewhat analogous that the doctrine obtains, that... | |
 | John Duer - 1858 - 830 halaman
...is cited and relied upon. " The act of incorporation is to the corporation an enabling act. It gives them all the powers they possess. It enables them...instrument no more creates a contract than if the body had never been incorporated." Mr. Justice Gardiner quotes the charter of the Brooklyn company as providing,... | |
 | 1858 - 564 halaman
...is otherwise. The act of incorporation is to them an " enabling act, it gives to them all the power they possess, it " enables them to contract, and when...instrument no more creates a contract than if the body had " never been incorporated. It is then the opinion of this " Court, that the circuit Court erred... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1862 - 754 halaman
...doctrine that where the charter, &c. prescribes the mode of contracting, that mode must be observed, or the instrument no more creates a contract than if the body had never been incorporated. ALLISON v. Without doubt, drawing, &c. a bill of exchange, is an act Nov.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 822 halaman
...otherwise. The act of incorporation is, to them, an enabling act. It gives them all the [ * 100 ] power they possess. It * enables them to contract ; and...instrument no more creates a contract than if the body had never been incorporated." The court considered the note of the 6th of September " as a mere informal... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1868 - 702 halaman
...is, that the act of incorporation is to the defendants an enabling act; it gives them all the power they possess ; it enables them to contract, and when...instrument no more creates a contract than if the body had never been incorporated. It is said in the opinion that a contract varying a policy is as much... | |
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The act of incorporation is to them an enabling act; it gives them all the power they possess ; it enables them to contract, and when it prescribes to them a mode of contracting, they must observe that mode, or the instrument no more creates a contract... 
