 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 頁
...incorporation ? Let this subject be -*"^^v"^fc' dered. Dartmouth . . . . ... College A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of b. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses oaly those properties which the charter of its creation... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 952 頁
...cannot be given, than that contained in the definition of a corporation by this Court: " 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... | |
 | Samuel Alfred Foot - 1839 - 112 頁
...principles and true nature of things, speaks of this feature of a corporation in this way : " 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... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 頁
...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 confers... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 頁
...Dartmouth College against Woodward, 4 Wheat. Rep. 636, Chief Justice Marshall describes a corporation to be "an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law," continues the judge, " it possesses only those properties which the charter... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames - 1846 - 872 頁
...the celebrated case of Dartmouth College v. Woodward : t " A corporation," says the Chief Justice, " 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... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1878 - 738 頁
...name." In Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636, Ch. J. MARSHALL said : "A corporation is au 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... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1849 - 680 頁
...the majority. [1.] A corporation, says Chief Justice Marshall, (in Dartmouth College os. Woodward,) 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... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 頁
...the following lucid exposition of that abstract phenomenon, a corporation, is given : "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... | |
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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... 
