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Page 13 - ... shall be, to all intents and purposes, the child and heir at law of the person so adopting him or her, entitled to all the rights and privileges and subject to all the obligations of a child of such person begotten in lawful wedlock...
Page 25 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in all state courts having competent jurisdiction, and in any circuit court of the United States...
Page 93 - Corporations formed under this Act shall be bodies corporate and politic for the period for which they are organized; may...
Page 128 - ... the first, second and third class, of which the first class shall remain in office one year, the second class two years, and the third class three years; and at each annual election conducted in the manner hereinbefore designated, directors shall be elected for the term of three years to fill the vacancies created by the retiring class.
Page 180 - York, and by that name they and their successors shall have continual succession, and shall be capable in law of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places 12 whatsoever, and in all manner of actions...
Page 121 - If it shall happen, at any time, that an election of trustees shall not be held on the day designated by the by-laws of the company, the corporation shall not for that reason be dissolved, but it shall be lawful, on any other day, to hold an election for trustees, in such manner as shall be provided for in the by-laws of the company, and all acts of the trustees shall be valid and binding on the company until their successors shall be elected.
Page 136 - That all and every person or persons who shall at any time become interested in said company, by insuring therein, and also their respective heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, continuing to be insured therein, as hereafter provided, shall be deemed and taken to be members thereof, for and during the time specified in their respective policies and no longer...
Page 186 - Company," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity within the United States, and may make and have a common seal.
Page 144 - ASSOCIATION, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be competent by the name and style aforesaid, to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and...
Page 81 - It was granted power by its charter "to survey, locate, construct, complete, alter, maintain and operate a railroad with one or more tracks or lines of rails from the southern terminus of the Illinois and Michigan canal to a point at the city of Cairo, with a branch of the same...