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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... "
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States ... - Page 354
by John Bouvier - 1843 - 1512 pages
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 4

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...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...
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Report of the Joint Committee of Both Houses of the General Assembly of Ohio ...

Ohio. General Assembly. Joint Committee on the Communication of the Auditor of State - Banks and banking - 1821 - 76 pages
...invisible, intangible, and existing only in "contemplation of law. Being the mere creature " of law, it possesses only those properties, which " the charter...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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 9; Volume 22

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 990 pages
...without it, it cannot exist. For we must here repeat, that this Court have said, that a corporation " possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence."" This position involves several inquiries, which may be embraced in an examination of the reasons assigned...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 9; Volume 22

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 952 pages
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter...upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which'it was created....
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The American Jurist and Law Magazine, Volume 6; Volume 24

Law - 1843 - 530 pages
...considered an artificial being, existing only in contemplation of law ; and being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly or as incidental to its very existence. Corporations created by statute must depend for their powers, and the mode of exercising them, upon...
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Journal, Volume 22

Indiana. General Assembly. Senate - Indiana - 1837 - 868 pages
...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...
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The Writings of John Marshall, Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon ...

John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law. it possesses only those properties which the charter...persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold property without...
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An Argument, in Favor of the Constitutionality of the General Banking Law of ...

Samuel Alfred Foot - Banking law - 1839 - 112 pages
...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. * . * * Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality;...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 2; Volume 43

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 800 pages
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter...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...
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A Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations Aggregate

Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - Business enterprises - 1846 - 872 pages
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties, which the charter...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;...
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