 It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities and capacities that corporations were invented and are in use. By these means, a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for the promotion of...  The New York Supplement - Page 71919Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the purposot transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chieflj fif the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities and capacities, to cor' porations were invented, and are in use. By the* means, a perpetual succession of individuals... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 952 pages
...purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men with these qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented and are -in use."' a Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. Rep. 634. 1824. If the character of a corporation, as here... | |
 | James Madison Porter - Charters - 1837 - 72 pages
...parties, because it has been broken by the other." " By these means," (the creation of a corporate body) " a perpetual succession of individuals are capable...of the particular object, like one immortal being. But this being does not share in the civil government of the country, unless that be the purpose for... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 696 pages
...parties, because it has been broken bv the other." "By these means," (the creation of a corporate body) "a perpetual succession of individuals are capable...of the particular object, like one immortal being. But this being does not share in the civil government of the country, unless that be the purpose for... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...endless necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand.(^It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men,...promotion of the particular object, like one immortal beingf\ But this being does not share in the civil government of the country, unless that be the purpose... | |
 | James R. Hope - 1840 - 76 pages
...necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the pur" pose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is " chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men...individuals " are capable of acting for the promotion of the par" ticular objects like one immortal being." Then he proceeds to inquire what gives a legislative... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...necessity of perpetual conveyance for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chieffy for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession,...that corporations were invented, and are in use." See 2 Bl. Com. 37. The words corporation and incorporation are frequently confounded, particularly... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 796 pages
...necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chieffy for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession...of the particular object like one immortal being." Again, the Providence Bank and Billings, 4 Peters, 514, it is said, " the great object of an incorporation... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1848 - 1046 pages
...so long as a succession of individual members of the corporation remains, and can be kept up. It was chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession, with the qualities and capacities of one single, artificial, and fictitious being, that corporations were... | |
| |
