 | Orlando Bump - 1878 - 474 halaman
...Sherman, 31 Miss. 679; McLeod v. Burroughs, 9 Geo. 213; Richmond RR Co. v. Louisa RR Co. 13 How. 71. A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible,...upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence. This being does not share in the civil government of the country unless that be the... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1878 - 1018 halaman
...acquired. Conceding, as we do, that the National bank defendant, " being the mere creature of the law, possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it" (Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518), and conceding as we may (but without deciding it), that... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1879 - 584 halaman
...restraint, by transferring their shares, introduce other persons in their 4 Wheat. 636, is familiar: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...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... | |
 | Henry Edward Wallace - 1879 - 676 halaman
...franchise derived from the State, by direct or indirect grant, and by them accepted. A corporation being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties...upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence; but this implies a right or authority to confer on individuals the special privileges... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 912 halaman
...How. 16 ; Runyan v. Coster's Lessee, 14 Pet. 122. " A corporation, being the mere creature of law, possesses only those properties which the charter...upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence." MARSHALL, CJ, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518, 636. "An incidental... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 886 halaman
...petition cannot be enforced. "A corporation, being the creature of the law, possesses only those powers which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence." 7 La. Ann. 314. "The modern doctrine," says Chancellor KENT, '• is to consider corporations... | |
 | 1903 - 1108 halaman
...authorizes." In the celebrated Dartmouth College Case, Chief Justice Marshall said : "A corporation la an 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 coufers... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1889 - 1162 halaman
...clearly and accurately defined by that greatest of all jurists. Chief Justice Marshall, in these words: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...its creation confers upon it, either expressly or incidental to its very existence." Subsequently he added that "the great object of an incorporation... | |
 | George Washington Field - 1881 - 620 halaman
...4 How., 16; Runyan v. Coster's Lessee, 14 Pet., 122. "A corporation being the mere creature of law, possesses only those properties which the charter...upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence." MARSHALL, CJ, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat., 518, 636. "An incidental... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1905 - 274 halaman
...the Dartmouth College case, (4 Wheaton, 632,) that Chief Justice Marshall gave the definition that: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." It has the elements of immortality and of individuality. "The benefit to the public is considered as... | |
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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... 
