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 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 страница
...18i9. the act of incorporation ? Let this subject be -*"^^v"^fc' dered. Dartmouth . . . . ... College A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of b. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses oaly those properties which the charter of its creation... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 952 страница
...better answer cannot be given, than that contained in the definition of a corporation by this Court: " 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... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 страница
...members of the civil government. Is it from the act of incorporation ? Let this subject be considered. 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... | |
 | Samuel Alfred Foot - 1839 - 112 страница
...on the principles and true nature of things, speaks of this feature of a 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, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 страница
...Dartmouth College against Woodward, 4 Wheat. Rep. 636, Chief Justice Marshall describes a corporation to be "an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law," continues the judge, " it possesses only those properties which the... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - 1846 - 872 страница
...the celebrated case of Dartmouth College v. Woodward : t " A corporation," says the Chief Justice, " 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... | |
 | 1847 - 554 страница
...4 Wheat. 636, the same principle was again decided by the Court. " A corporation," said the Court, "is 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... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1849 - 680 страница
...misrepresentations of the promisee, is not a good defence. Ibid. See Equity, 12. Surety, 2. CORPORATIONS. 1. A corporation is an artificial being — invisible,...intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 страница
...College, in which the following lucid exposition of that abstract phenomenon, a corporation, is given : "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... | |
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