It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented and are in use. By these means a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for the promotion of... Commentaries on American Law - Page 307by James Kent - 1858Full view - About this book
| James Kent - 1826-1830 - 1827 - 544 pages
...of individual members of the corporation remains, and can be kept up. It was chiefly for thejuirnosc of clothing bodies of men in succession, with the qualities and capacities' <Jf WWthl"* gTBTartincmT, and fictitious being, that corporations were originally invented, and, for... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...endless necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand.(^It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented, and are in use. By these means a perpetual... | |
| James R. Hope - 1840 - 76 pages
...necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the pur" pose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is " chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in " succession with these qualities and capacities that " corporations were invented and are in use. By " these means a... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...endless necessities of perpetual conveyances, for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession with these qualities and capacities that corporations were invented, and are in use. By these means, a perpetual... | |
| John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 674 pages
...endless necessity of perpetual conveyance, for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented and are in use." 180. Joint stock companies... | |
| California. Legislature. Assembly - 1855 - 956 pages
...endless necessity of perpetual conveyance for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession with these qualities and capacities that corporations were invented and used. By these means, a perpetual... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1859 - 546 pages
...and many others, dating their existence from a later period. " It was chiefly," says Chancellor Kent, "for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession...were originally invented, and for the same convenient purposes they have been brought largely into use."* Blackstone quotes Plutarch for the statement, that... | |
| Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...endless necessity of perpetual conveyances, for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with those qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented, and are in use. By these means, a... | |
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