 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...  The Pacific Reporter - 118 페이지1923전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - 328 페이지
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the...creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incident to its very existence. These are such as supposed best calculated to effect the object for... | |
 | David Ehrenfeld - 2002 - 274 페이지
...immortal being." But as the chief justice also said in that decision, a corporation is "a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it." Presumably, if a corporation violates its charter, the law can unmake it. Its immortality is conditional.... | |
 | Edward J. Bloustein - 206 페이지
...corporation is "an artificial being, . . . 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 ... ."118 Two important consequences follow from this theory. First, the fifth amendment privilege... | |
 | William M. Dugger, Howard J. Sherman - 2003 - 376 페이지
...being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. . . . Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality;... | |
 | Samuel S. Tuttle - 2001 - 260 페이지
...official being, invisible, intangible, and existing in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as the same, and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation to manage... | |
 | Omar Azfar, Charles Cadwell - 2003 - 372 페이지
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in its contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. (The Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheaton 5 1 8, 636 [US 181 9] ) By rendering the... | |
 | Marion Montgomery - 2003 - 156 페이지
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the...upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its existence. Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality;... | |
 | Marion Montgomery - 2003 - 156 페이지
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation ot law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the...confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to irs existence. Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individualityt... | |
 | Christopher D. Merrett, Norman Walzer - 2004 - 346 페이지
...of the law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties, which the charter of creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. The corporation... | |
 | Richard J. Joseph - 2004 - 236 페이지
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence" (17 US. [4 Wheat.] 518, 536 [1819]). The Fifty-third Congress's conception of the corporation as a... | |
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