 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1940 - 894 pages
...Cranch 57. Throughout, the mode of thought was metaphorical. The classic doctrine was that a corporation "must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty." Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 13 Pet. 519, 588. Logically applied, this theory of non-migration... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 840 pages
...any positive law forbidding it by such State. Said the court : " It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries...created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by the force of law; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 516 pages
...corporations under the laws and constitution of the United States.) It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries...place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty. But although it must live and have its being in that state only, yet it does not by any... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 530 pages
...(Same.) A corporation can have no legal existence out of the sovereignty by which it is created, as it exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law : and when that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence.... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 930 pages
...27 Jt. In the decision of that case, Chief-Justice Tancy said: "It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries...place of its creation and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.'' This theory was the basis of the decision of the cases which held that a corporation... | |
 | 1839 - 568 pages
...purchase of the bills valid, and that the plaintiffs acquired a legal title to the bills by the purchase. exists only in contemplation of law, and by force...place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty. But although it must live and have its being in that state only, yet it does not by any... | |
 | Commerce - 1839 - 566 pages
...acquired a legal title to the bills by the purchase. The court said it was very true that a corporation can have no legal existence, out of the boundaries...in contemplation of law, and by force of the law, a»d where that law ceases to operate and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence.... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1843 - 900 pages
...commonwealth. For, as is said by the court in The Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 13 Peters 588, "a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries...place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty. But although it must live and have its being in that state only, yet it does not by any... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 538 pages
...exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law : and when that law ceases to operate, und is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have...place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty. But although it may live and have its being in that state only, yet it does not follow... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 666 pages
...of the court, in Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 13 Peters, 588, said: "It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries...it is created. It exists only in contemplation of the law, Watson v. Thompson Lumber Co. and by force of the law, and where that law ceases to operate,... | |
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It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory,... 
