 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1230 pages
...follows: 'A corporation being a mere creature of law, possesses only those properties which the charter confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence. The author further states: 'As relates to the exercise of powers it is generally regarded that corporations... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 916 pages
...this court says: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangibly 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 were supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - Railroad law - 1885 - 758 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...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it is created. Among... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 940 pages
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation oi law. Iieing a mere creation of the law, it possesses only those properties which the...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the objects for which it was created. Amou... | |
 | Henry Edwin Dwight - 1885 - 334 pages
...pl. 3 & 4, p. 197. A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law,...possesses only those properties which the charter of its incorporation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence. Dartmouth College... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 896 pages
...Company had no power to make the trust deed in question. I recognize the rule that a corporation " possesses only those properties which the charter...its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incident to its very existence." Head v. Providence Ins. Co., 2 Cranch, 127 (CORPORATIONS, §§ 1046-48);... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - Bar associations - 1890 - 478 pages
...Dartmouth College caee was that " It 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 beet calculated to effect the object for which it wa§ created. Among... | |
 | John Warwick Daniel - Negotiable instruments - 1886 - 1054 pages
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the...expressly or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed to be best calculated to effect the object for which it is created."8... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 828 pages
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." So long as corporations act within their corporate powers they may bind the people within their corporate... | |
 | Henry Morrison Herman - Estoppel - 1886 - 952 pages
...being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the...its creation confers upon it, either expressly or incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best caleulated to effect that object... | |
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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... 
