 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - 1867 - 944 páginas
...Justice Marshall there says : ' A corporation is an artificial being, — the mere creature of the law, — it possesses only those properties which...upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its ecry existence.' The decision throughout treats this as the fundamental idea, the pivot upon which... | |
 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - 1867 - 744 páginas
...corporation is well defined, as to the general sense of the term, by Chief Justice Marshall f as " an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." It is, in fact, the mere creature or creation of the law. Endowed by its charter with the capacity... | |
 | United States. General Land Office - 1868 - 436 páginas
...of the friends of the act. Corporations must, therefore, be permitted to share in its benefits. But "a corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." It Civu ueither exercise the duties of citizenship, become naturalized, nor file a declaration of intention... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1868 - 624 páginas
...effect was given to it, and, therefore, it should not be presumed to have assented to such transfer. A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. The only mode to give notice, or to communicate knowledge, to such artificial being, invisible and... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1875 - 720 páginas
...before us, is not alleged to be. For says Chief J. MARSHALL " a corporation being a creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence." 4. Wheat. 636. A road may not therefore, exercise all powers that are convenient or profitable to it,... | |
 | W.W.Lester - 1870 - 404 páginas
...of the friends of the act. Corporations must, therefore, be permitted to share in its benefits, But "a corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." It can neither exercise the duties of citizenship, become naturalized, nor file a declaration of intention... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 892 páginas
...record." In the case of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636, it is said by the court, that "a corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being a mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers... | |
 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - 1870 - 708 páginas
...4 Wheat. 636, the same principle was again decided by the court. " A corporation," said the court, "is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being a mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1871 - 860 páginas
...or their clear import: 7 Ga., 221. In this case Warner, J., wavering the opinion of the Court, says: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." In 5 Georgia, 561, my learned associate lays down the same rule ably and forcibly. In 8 Georgia, 30,... | |
 | California - 1872 - 728 páginas
...Marshall, in Dartmouth College vs. Woodward, 4 Wheat., p. 636, "is an artificial being, invisi-, ble, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either... | |
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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... 
