 And this malleability to suit the necessities and usages of the mercantile and commercial world is one of the most valuable characteristics of the common law. When a corporation covenants to pay to bearer and gives a bond with negotiable qualities, and...  Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations - Page 1974by William Meade Fletcher - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1865 - 722 pages
...the United States, in the case of Mercer County v. Hacket, (1 Wallace, 95,) uses this language : " When a corporation covenants to pay to bearer, and...accomplishment of the useful enterprises of the day, it can not be allowed to evade the payment by parading some obsolete judicial decision, that a bond, for... | |
 | Law - 1872 - 926 pages
...have been unknown to Jiracton or Blackstone; and this malleability to suit the necessities and images of the mercantile and commercial world, is one of...valuable characteristics of the Common Law. When a coqxv ration covenants to pay to bearer, and gives a bond with negotiable qualities, and by this means... | |
 | Law - 1872 - 940 pages
...commerce require that they should be so. A mere technical dogma of the courts or the Common Law, can not prohibit the commercial world from inventing, or using...usages of the mercantile and commercial world, is one o( the most valuable characteristics of the Common Law. When a corporation covenants to pay to bearer,... | |
 | William Henry Burroughs - Local taxation - 1877 - 970 pages
...acknowledged by the courts as a part of the common law, although they may have been unknown to Bracton or Blackstone ; and this malleability to suit the necessities and usages of the mercantile world is one of the most valuable characteristics of the common law. When a corporation covenants to... | |
 | George Washington Field - Ultra vires - 1881 - 620 pages
...acknowledged by the courts as a part of the common law, although they may have been unknown to Bracton or Blackstone. And this malleability to suit the necessities...the common law. When a corporation covenants to pay bearer, and gives a bond with negotiable qualities, and by this means obtains funds for the accomplishment... | |
 | John Warwick Daniel - Negotiable instruments - 1886 - 990 pages
...are acknowledged by courts as part of the common law, although they may have been unknown to Bracton or Blackstone ; and this malleability to suit the...characteristics of the common law. When a corporation 1 City of Atchison v. Butcher, 3 Kan., 104. * Mercer County v. Hacket, I Wall.. 83. covenants to pay... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1172 pages
...are acknowledged by courts as part of the common law, although they may have been unknown to Bracton or Blackstone. And this malleability to suit the necessities...negotiable qualities, and by this means obtains funds for tlie accomplishment of the useful enterprises of the day, it cannot be allowed to evade the payment... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 916 pages
...are acknowledged by courts as part of the common law, although they may have been unknown to Bracton or Blackstone. And this malleability to suit the necessities...covenants to pay to bearer, and gives a bond with negotiNOTE.— The negotiable character of bonds now so fully recognized by custom in spite of the... | |
 | Jeremiah Smith - Corporation law - 1902 - 768 pages
...the common law, although they may have been unknown to Bracton or Blackstone. And this malleabilit\- to suit the necessities and usages of the mercantile...by this means obtains funds for the accomplishment ot the useful enterprises of the day, it cannot be allowed to evade the payment by parading some obsolete... | |
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