 A corporation is an artificial 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, either expressly, or as incidental...  Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations - Page 37by John Forrest Dillon - 1890 - 1516 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - Banking law - 1888 - 808 pages
...this question arising under the Constitution. See § 10. 4 A corporation is a creature of the law, and possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it. Marshall, CJ, in Trustees of Dartmouth College r. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636. 1 $ 7. See § 6, notes. They... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1889 - 856 pages
...for plaintiff. Chas. B. Lore, Geo. H. Bates, and Austin Harrington for defendants. SAULSBURY, C. — A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible,...in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers g"^*"0"9 upon it... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 648 pages
...25 * loa> RESPONDENT. i« 3341. 41 288; CORPORATION—POWERS—CHABTER. — A corporation being the creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers npon it, either expressly or aa incidental to ita very existence. CHABTER OF DALLES CITY — POWER... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Actions and defenses - 1889 - 920 pages
...foreign corporations. § 332. Definition of Corporation — The Different Classes of Corporations. — A corporation is "an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law."1 It is " a natural person or body of persons upon whom has been conferred a distinct legal existence... | |
 | United States - 1890 - 624 pages
...largely the history of corporations. The facility with which such a body may be created, the value of " an artificial being invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law,"* for the purposes of combinations in trade, have made the corporation almost the sole agency from which... | |
 | Charles Fisk Beach (Jr.) - Corporation law - 1891 - 832 pages
...The corporation defined. — Chief Justice Marshall's much quoted definition of a corporation as " an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law," i has, on the one hand, been made the subject of much 1 The quotation in the text is from that eminent... | |
 | John Wilder May - Insurance law - 1891 - 788 pages
...of the entire contract on both sides. Before that era, it had been understood that a corporation — an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law — was capable of acting only by agents. But corporations, pretending to net without agents, exhibited... | |
 | Thomas Carl Spelling - Corporation law - 1892 - 736 pages
...the corporation, and of the rights and powers of both, is that of Chief Justice Marshall, as follows: "An artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing...its creation confers upon it, either expressly or incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object... | |
 | Samuel Maxwell - Civil procedure - 1892 - 932 pages
...of , he asks judgment. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. Chief Justice Marshall described a corporation as " an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing...in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly... | |
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