 | United States. Supreme Court - 1990 - 1088 頁
...existence and attributes are a product of state law. As Chief Justice Marshall explained: "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... | |
 | Académie de droit international de La Haye - 1990 - 420 頁
...Compare what US Chief Justice John Marshall said about another common conception, the corporation : "[I]t is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 US (4 Wheat.) 518, 636 (1819). In the international system,... | |
 | David Ehrenfeld - 1993 - 233 頁
...human tendency to drop alien pigs, horses, and donkeys around the landscape. Loyalty 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... | |
 | Phillip I. Blumberg - 1993 - 337 頁
...of the Fourth Amendment." Justice Harlan, also concurring, was more positive: "... a corporation— 'an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law'— cannot claim the immunity given by the Fourth Amendment; for it is not a part of the 'People' within... | |
 | Evan McKenzie - 1994 - 260 頁
...that can be granted or taken away, as reflected in Chief Justice John Marshall's statement that it is "an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law."5 The other genealogical line is the long history of implicit freedom of association for business... | |
 | Henry N. Butler, Larry E. Ribstein - 1995 - 236 頁
...great corporation case in this country, Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward.™ 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 that the charter of its creation confers... | |
 | John Rogers Commons - 434 頁
...Sir Edward Coke and the ideas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, described a corporation as "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... | |
 | William J. Novak - 1996 - 412 頁
...classic statement appeared in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518 (1819), 636: "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... | |
 | R. P. Maheshwari - 1997 - 324 頁
...portion of the capital to which each member is entitled is his share." — Lord Lindley "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible and...existing only in contemplation of law. Being a mere creation of law, it possesses only the properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it... | |
 | R. P. Maheshwari - 1997 - 248 頁
...seal". Chief Justice Marshall of USA in Dartmouth College case defined a company as "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of the law. Being a mere creation of law, it possesses only the 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... 
