Corpus Juris: Being a Complete and Systematic Statement of the Whole Body of the Law as Embodied in and Developed by All Reported Decisions, 第 14 卷

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William Mack, William Benjamin Hale
American Law Book Company, 1919

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第 50 頁 - Among the most important are immortality, and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality; properties by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold property without the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and 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,...
第 126 頁 - The legislative assemblies of the several territories shall not grant private charters or special privileges, but they may, by general incorporation acts, permit persons to associate themselves together as bodies corporate for mining, manufacturing, and other industrial pursuits...
第 50 頁 - 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 to its very existence.
第 99 頁 - ... issued; shall forbid the declaring of stock or bond dividends, and, in the case of public-service corporations, shall provide for the effective regulation of the charges thereof...
第 99 頁 - Granting to any corporation, association or individual any special or exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever.
第 196 頁 - ... so as to include therein any purposes, powers or provisions *hich at the time of such alteration may apply to corporations engaged in. a business of the same general character...
第 72 頁 - Of this are all hospitals for the maintenance of the poor, sick, and impotent; and all colleges both in our universities and out of them.
第 292 頁 - The first is, that any man or number of men, who are the owners of any kind of property, real or personal, may form a partnership or association with others, and sell that property to the association at any price which may be agreed upon between them, no matter what it may have ordinarily cost, provided there be no fraudulent misrepresentation made by the vendors to their associates. They are not bound to disclose the profit which they may realize by the transaction.
第 146 頁 - ... organized for benevolent or charitable purposes, or for the purpose of assisting persons without means in the pursuit of any civil remedy...
第 252 頁 - The term promoter is a term not of law but of business, usefully summing up in a single word a number of business operations, familiar to the commercial world, by which a company is generally brought into existence.

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