| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 990 pages
...without it, it cannot exist. For we must here repeat, that this Court have said, that a corporation " possesses only those properties which the charter...upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence."" This position involves several inquiries, which may be embraced in an examination... | |
| Law - 1843 - 530 pages
...considered an artificial being, existing only in contemplation of law ; and being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the...upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence. Corporations created by statute must depend for their powers, and the mode of exercising... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law. it possesses only those properties which the...upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was... | |
| Samuel Alfred Foot - Banking law - 1839 - 112 pages
...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. * . * * Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality;... | |
| John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law," continues the judge, " it possesses only those properties which the charter...upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was... | |
| Commerce - 1846 - 632 pages
...which are entitled to more weight. We are informed that a corporation possesses only those powers or properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, oras incidental to its very existence. — Dartmouth College vs. Woodward. The incidental or implied... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 738 pages
...corporation is au artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only...upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed to be best calculated to effect the object for which... | |
| Commercial law - 1847 - 554 pages
..."is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being a mere creature of the law, it possesses only those...upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence." And in the case of the Bank of the United States vs. Dandridge, 12 Wheat. 64, where... | |
| New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 704 pages
...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. Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality ; properties,... | |
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