 | Orlando Bump - 1878 - 474 страница
...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, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1879 - 584 страница
...transferring their shares, introduce other persons in their 4 Wheat. 636, is familiar: "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... | |
 | 1903 - 1108 страница
...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... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1905 - 274 страница
...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... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1889 - 1162 страница
...defined by that greatest of all jurists. Chief Justice Marshall, in these words: "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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 798 страница
...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1896 - 1242 страница
...corporation. It is also true that there was no formal agreement upon the part of that corporation "as an artificial being, invisible, Intangible, and existing only In contemplation of law," that the titleb should ever be reconveyed to the Virginia^ corporation. But* when the Inquiry Involves*'... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, James Bolesworth Bradwell - 1883 - 722 страница
...corporation aggregate; and is. in the language of Chief Justice Marshall in the Dartmouth College case, "an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." How could such a being come into court and be examined orally touching anything? The thing bsing impossible,... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - 1884 - 778 страница
...statutory phrase, " to do business," is a matter of elaborate argument by counsel. A corporation is defined to be "an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law." It can do no acts, either within or without the State which creates it, except such as are authorized... | |
 | 1884 - 1062 страница
...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... | |
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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... 
