| United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 страници
...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... | |
| Ohio. General Assembly. Joint Committee on the Communication of the Auditor of State - 1821 - 76 страници
...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...such as are supposed best calculated " to effect the objects for which it was created. " Among the most important, are immortality, and, **if the expression... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 952 страници
...this Court have said, that a corporation " possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence"" This position involves several inquiries, which may be embraced in an examination of the reasons assigned... | |
| 1843 - 530 страници
...law ; and being a 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. Corporations created by statute must depend for their powers, and the mode of exercising them, upon... | |
| Indiana. General Assembly. Senate - 1837 - 868 страници
...Woodward, (4 Wbeatoa 636) where that distinguished jurist says, the properties possessed by a corporation "are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created." And again: "the objects for which a corporation is created are universally such as the goverment wishes... | |
| Samuel Alfred Foot - 1839 - 112 страници
...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... | |
| John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 страници
...creature of law," continues the judge, " it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental...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... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1844 - 800 страници
...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 to its very existence. These are such as were supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important... | |
| Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - 1846 - 872 страници
...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...best calculated to effect the object for which it is created. Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality;... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - 1878 - 738 страници
...law. Being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as...its very existence. These are such as are supposed to be best calculated to effect the object for which it is created." In addition to powers expressly... | |
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