 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 páginas
...incorporation ? Let this subject be -*"^^v"^fc' dered. Dartmouth . . . . ... College A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of b. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses oaly those properties which the charter of its creation... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 952 páginas
...cannot be given, than that contained in the definition of a corporation by this Court: " 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... | |
 | Samuel Alfred Foot - 1839 - 112 páginas
...principles and true nature of things, speaks of this feature of a corporation in this way : " 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... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 páginas
...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 confers... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 páginas
...Dartmouth College against Woodward, 4 Wheat. Rep. 636, Chief Justice Marshall describes a corporation to be "an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law," continues the judge, " it possesses only those properties which the charter... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - 1846 - 872 páginas
...the celebrated case of Dartmouth College v. Woodward : t " A corporation," says the Chief Justice, " 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... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1878 - 738 páginas
...name." In Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636, Ch. J. MARSHALL said : "A corporation is au 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... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1849 - 680 páginas
...the majority. [1.] A corporation, says Chief Justice Marshall, (in Dartmouth College os. Woodward,) 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... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 páginas
...the following lucid exposition of that abstract phenomenon, a corporation, is given : "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... | |
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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... 
