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Página 107
... purchase , be permitted , unless by plain and express consent of his principal , to make any profit out of the transaction . If those who made the purchase for $ 16,000 were at the time acting as projectors or pro- moters of the company ...
... purchase , be permitted , unless by plain and express consent of his principal , to make any profit out of the transaction . If those who made the purchase for $ 16,000 were at the time acting as projectors or pro- moters of the company ...
Página 136
... purchase its own stock and reissue it . 3 Philadelphia & West Chester R. R. Co. v . Hickman , 28 Pa . St. 318 . But see Henry . Vermillion , & c . R. R. Co. , 17 Ohio , 187 . 4 Carr v . Le Fevre , 27 Pa . St. 413 ; Philadelphia , & c ...
... purchase its own stock and reissue it . 3 Philadelphia & West Chester R. R. Co. v . Hickman , 28 Pa . St. 318 . But see Henry . Vermillion , & c . R. R. Co. , 17 Ohio , 187 . 4 Carr v . Le Fevre , 27 Pa . St. 413 ; Philadelphia , & c ...
Página 137
... purchase is admissible for the pur- pose of impeaching the transaction on the ground of fraud.3 Where , as is sometimes the case , the charter expressly permits subscriptions to be taken payable in property , it is , of course , upon ...
... purchase is admissible for the pur- pose of impeaching the transaction on the ground of fraud.3 Where , as is sometimes the case , the charter expressly permits subscriptions to be taken payable in property , it is , of course , upon ...
Página 155
... purchase such stock , they may repudiate their contract of purchase , and be relieved of liability , provided they act promptly and are without laches . But when repeated assessments have been paid by them , or they have in person or by ...
... purchase such stock , they may repudiate their contract of purchase , and be relieved of liability , provided they act promptly and are without laches . But when repeated assessments have been paid by them , or they have in person or by ...
Página 157
... purchased from a county by the L. , and fraudulently can- celled by the officers of the two corpora- tions ; and a like ... purchase is completed ; and it is immaterial at what time , or from what sources these profits have been earned ...
... purchased from a county by the L. , and fraudulently can- celled by the officers of the two corpora- tions ; and a like ... purchase is completed ; and it is immaterial at what time , or from what sources these profits have been earned ...
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Página 578 - Whatever subjects of this power are in their nature national, or admit only of one uniform system, or plan of regulation, may justly be said to be of such a nature as to require exclusive legislation by Congress.
Página 6 - Among the most important are immortality, and if the expression may be allowed, individuality; properties by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual.
Página 581 - A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages, that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods.
Página 583 - Congress the regulation of commerce, it was never intended to cut the States off from legislating on all subjects relating to the health, life, and safety of their citizens, though the legislation might indirectly affect the commerce of the country. Legislation, in a great variety of ways, may affect commerce and persons engaged in it without constituting a regulation of it within the meaning of the Constitution.
Página 344 - Now, natural persons through the intervention of agents, are continually making contracts in countries in which they do not reside ; and where they are not personally present when the contract is made ; and nobody has ever doubted the validity of these agreements. And what greater objection can there be to the capacity of an artificial person, by its agents, to make a contract within the scope of its limited powers, in a sovereignty in which it does not reside ; provided such contracts are permitted...
Página 485 - That principle is that where a corporation, like a railroad company, has granted to it by charter a franchise intended in a large measure to be exercised for the public good, the due performance of those functions being the consideration of the public grant, any contract which disables the corporation from performing those functions — which undertakes, without the consent of the state, to transfer...
Página 304 - It is publicly pledged to those who deal with the corporation, for their security. Unpaid stock is as much a part of this pledge, and as much a part of the assets of the company, as the cash which has been paid in upon it.
Página 385 - ... when the question is one of a common or general interest of many persons, or when the parties are very numerous, and it may be impracticable to bring them all before the court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of the whole.
Página 511 - The doctrine of ultra vires, when invoked for or against a corporation, should not be allowed to prevail where it would defeat the ends of justice or work a legal wrong.
Página 583 - Until congress acts in reference to the relations of this company to interstate commerce, it is certainly within the power of Wisconsin to regulate its fares, etc., so far as they are of domestic concern.