 | 1919 - 1082 페이지
...civil government. Is it from the act of incorporation? Let this subject be considered. 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... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1889 - 920 페이지
...it may become an artificial being, or acting entity. Such a corporation has ueen well defined to be an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. The instruments provided to bring the artificial being into life and active operation are the persons... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1889 - 856 페이지
...Chas. B. Lore, Geo. H. Bates, and Austin Harrington for defendants. SAULSBURY, C. — 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... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1889 - 648 페이지
...Chief Justice Marshall,. with great force and clearness, defined a corporation thus: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, 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... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1890 - 876 페이지
...of a corporation is remarkable for its general accuracy and felicitous expression: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, 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... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1890 - 840 페이지
...a corporation is remarkable for its general accuracy and felicitous expression : " A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, 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... | |
 | 1890 - 624 페이지
...largely the history of corporations. The facility with which such a body may be created, the value of " an artificial being invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law,"* for the purposes of combinations in trade, have made the corporation almost the sole agency from which... | |
 | Charles Fisk Beach (Jr.) - 1891 - 832 페이지
...§ 1. The corporation defined. — Chief Justice Marshall's much quoted definition of a corporation as " an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law," i has, on the one hand, been made the subject of much 1 The quotation in the text is from that eminent... | |
 | John Wilder May - 1891 - 788 페이지
...of the entire contract on both sides. Before that era, it had been understood that a corporation — an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law — was capable of acting only by agents. But corporations, pretending to net without agents, exhibited... | |
 | Samuel Maxwell - 1892 - 932 페이지
...from the of , he asks judgment. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. Chief Justice Marshall described a corporation as " 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... | |
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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... 
