 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - 1898 - 702 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... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - 1898 - 978 páginas
...creation, or at any subsequent period of its existence." 1 Kyd on Corp., 13 (AD 1798). " 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... | |
 | Robert O. McLin - 1899 - 186 páginas
...individual.' "Chief Justice Marshall, of the Supreme Court of the United States, says: '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... | |
 | 1899 - 820 páginas
...Justice Marshall, in the Dartmouth College Case,1 defines, or rather characterizes, a corporation as an " artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law." Justice Field, in the case of the Pembina Mining Company v. Pennsylvania* says with reference to private... | |
 | 1899 - 818 páginas
...Justice Marshall, in the Dartmouth College Case, 1 defines, or rather characterizes, a corporation as an " artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law." Justice Field, in the case of the Pembina Mining Company v. Pennsylvania, 2 says with reference to... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1900 - 758 páginas
...Wheat. '636, the same principle was again decided by the court. ' A corporation,' said the court, ' 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 character of its creation... | |
 | William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall - 1905 - 952 páginas
...Nonfeasance. In view of the fact that a corporation is, in the language of Chief Justice Marshall, "an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law," it was at one time doubted whether a corporation could be guilty of any crime. Lord Holt is reported... | |
 | Thomas Raeburn White - 1900 - 376 páginas
...by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall in the famous Dartmouth College case, when he said, " A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." This artificial, intangible being, created by individuals who unite together according to law, is endowed... | |
 | National Municipal League - 1901 - 362 páginas
...personification of collectivity. Chief Justice Marshall in Dartmouth College Case—"A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law." Angell and Ames on "Corporations"—"A corporation is a body created by law, composed of individuals... | |
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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... 
