 | Cary Federman - 2012 - 256 halaman
...opinion in Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819), which established the classic theory of the corporation, "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence." 49 The corporate body is not autonomous because the state is not yet ready to cast it off; at this... | |
 | 2006 - 754 halaman
...incur liabilities. In the famous Dartmouth College decision in 1819, Justice Marshall concluded that a corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of the law. Being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its... | |
 | William S. Laufer - 2006 - 305 halaman
...corporation, according to Marshall, existed only by virtue of the concession granted by the sovereign. A corporation is "an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law."36 As the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine ruled in 1841, "A corporation is created by law for... | |
 | John L. Colley, Jacqueline L. Doyle, Robert D. Hardie - 2007 - 488 halaman
...a corporation in a Supreme Court opinion for Dartmouth College v. Woodward in the following terms: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in the contemplation of the law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only three qualities which... | |
 | Glen Yeadon - 2008 - 528 halaman
...and the principle of the sanctity of a written contract to include states, as well as corporations: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in the contemplation of the law ... . It possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation... | |
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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... 
