 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 882 pages
...Wheaton, ol)S, Chief Justice MARSHALL says "a corporation is an artificial being, the mere creature of the law ; it possesses only those properties which the...upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its existence." And in Providence Bankv. Jit/lings, -I Peters, 514, the same judge says : " The great object... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 678 pages
...Woodward, held that a corporation " being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only those powers which the charter of its creation confers upon it,...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." 4 Wheat. 636. The same doctrine is again laid down by the Supreme Court of the United States, in almost... | |
 | Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...RR Co. 13 How. 71. A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law,...expressly or as incidental to its very existence. This being does not share in the civil government of the country unless that be the purpose for which... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - National banks (U.S.) - 1878 - 1018 pages
...acquired. Conceding, as we do, that the National bank defendant, " being the mere creature of the law, possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it" (Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518), and conceding as we may (but without deciding it), that... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - Corporation law - 1879 - 584 pages
...636, is familiar: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law,...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. Among... | |
 | Henry Edward Wallace - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 676 pages
...franchise derived from the State, by direct or indirect grant, and by them accepted. A corporation being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties...expressly or as incidental to its very existence; but this implies a right or authority to confer on individuals the special privileges or franchises... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 912 pages
...How. 16 ; Runyan v. Coster's Lessee, 14 Pet. 122. " A corporation, being the mere creature of law, possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence." MARSHALL, CJ, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518, 636. "An incidental power is one that... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 886 pages
...petition cannot be enforced. "A corporation, being the creature of the law, possesses only those powers which the charter of its creation confers upon it,...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." 7 La. Ann. 314. "The modern doctrine," says Chancellor KENT, '• is to consider corporations as having... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1108 pages
...being, Invisible, Intangible, and existing only In contemplation of law. Being a mere creature of the law, It possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation coufers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence." A number of later declarations... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1889 - 1162 pages
...in these words: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law,...its creation confers upon it, either expressly or incidental to its very existence." Subsequently he added that "the great object of an incorporation... | |
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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... 
