 Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers 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...  The New York Supplement - Page 71919Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...supposedly calculated to effect the object for which it was at ated. Among the most important are immortafo and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality properties, by which a perpetual succession of BMJ persons are considered as the same, and may acts a single individual. They enable a -corporation... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 952 pages
...its existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which'it was created. Among the most important are immortality,...enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to Lold property, without the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity of perpetual... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 990 pages
...its existence. These are such as arc supposed best calculated to effect the object for whieh'it was created. Among the most important are immortality,...individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own -a flairs, and to hold property, without the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important are immortality,...conveyances for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand.(^It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities... | |
 | Samuel Alfred Foot - Banking law - 1839 - 112 pages
...law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it. * . * * Among the most important are immortality, and, if...persons are considered as the same, and may act as the single individual." [Dartmouth College vs. Woodward, 4 Wheat. Rep. 636.] • - f The existence... | |
 | James R. Hope - 1840 - 76 pages
...and its individuality, and then he said, " They enable a corporation to manage " its own affairs, or to hold property, without the " perplexing intricacies,...endless " necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the pur" pose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is " chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important are immortality,...persons are considered as the same, and may act as 354 COR 355 the single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 704 pages
...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...allowed, individuality ; properties, by which a perpetual successon of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. Dartmouth... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created—among the most important are, immortality, and if the expression...as the same, and may act as a single individual." The question in this case was, whether the law of the State abolishing its old charter and substituting... | |
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