 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...qualities and capacities, to cor' porations were invented, and are in use. By the* means, a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for...particular object, like one immortal being. But this hein; does not share in the civil government of t country, unless that be the purpose for «™c it... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented, and are in use. By these means a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for...promotion of the particular object, like one immortal beingf\ But this being does not share in the civil government of the country, unless that be the purpose... | |
 | James R. Hope - 1840 - 76 pages
...qualities and capacities that " corporations were invented and are in use. By " these means a perpetual succession of individuals " are capable of acting for the promotion of the par" ticular objects like one immortal being." Then he proceeds to inquire what gives a legislative... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 800 pages
...qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented and are in use. By these means a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for...of the particular object like one immortal being." Again, the Providence Bank and Billings, 4 Peters, 514, it is said, " the great object of an incorporation... | |
 | California. Legislature. Assembly - 1855 - 956 pages
...these qualities and capacities that corporations were invented and used. By these means, a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for...of the particular object, like one immortal being." In another case this eminent jurist says, " the great object of a corporation is to bestow the character... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...corporations were invented, and are in use. By these means, a perpetual succession of individual» are capable of acting for the promotion of the particular object, like our immortal being. Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518; 4 Cond. Rep. 543. 13. There are two... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1873 - 546 pages
...qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented and are in usc. By these means a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for...promotion of the particular object like one immortal being."1 Thus, though the members change, the corporation itself remains, in its legal personality,... | |
 | Robert Alexander Harrison - Liquor laws - 1874 - 1262 pages
...qualities and capacities that Corporations were invented and are in use. By these means a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for...of the particular object, like one immortal being." (Per Marshall, CJ, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636.) Words making any Association or... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1240 pages
...qualities and capacities thiil corporations were invented and are in use. By these means a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for...of the particular object like one immortal being." Again, in The Providence Bank v . Billing* et al. (4 Peters, 514), it is said, ' 'the great object... | |
 | Canada. Superintendent of Insurance - Insurance - 1882 - 540 pages
...qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented and are in use. By these means a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for...of the particular object, like one immortal being." A corporation can exist only within the limits of the sovereignty which created it, but it may act... | |
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It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession with these qualities and capacities that corporations were invented and are in use. By these means, a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for the promotion of... 
