 | Henry Edwin Dwight - 1885 - 334 páginas
...(folio edition), vol. 1st, Book 1 Tit. 11, " of usufruct," s. 2, 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, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its incorporation... | |
 | Henry Morrison Herman - 1886 - 952 páginas
...APPLIED TO CORPORATIONS. SECTION 1165. A corporation, in the language of Chief Justice Marshall, 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... | |
 | Victor Morawetz - 1886 - 630 páginas
...Corporation. — A corporation was described by Chief Justice Marshall, in the Dartmouth College Case,1 as " an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." A corporation has also been designated a legal entity, a creature of the law, a legal institution,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1886 - 828 páginas
...sec. 9.) Chief Justice MARSHALL'S description of a corporation is in these words: "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... | |
 | 1886 - 834 páginas
...it may become an artificial being, or acting entity. Such a corporation has been 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... | |
 | John Warwick Daniel - 1886 - 1054 páginas
...character.2 § 378. Definition of corporation. — Chief-Justice Marshall has well denned a corporation as "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... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - 1890 - 478 páginas
...Wall. 6«S. ; Marshall's definition of a corporation in the 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, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation... | |
 | New Hampshire. Supreme Court - 1887 - 702 páginas
...are sustained by the law is demonstrated, we submit, by the following authorities : "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... | |
 | 1916 - 948 páginas
...not a solid reality about the dinners of the Corporation of London. "It is," said Marshall, CJ, 10 "an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law" . . . "it is precisely," he says again, "what the act of incorporation makes it." "Persons," said Best,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1888 - 982 páginas
...Corporations, sec. 271. In Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636, the court says: "A corporation is an artificial 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... | |
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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... 
