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... Speeches, Debates, Resolutions, List of the Delegates, Committees, Etc - 第416页编者: - 1899 - 626 页全本阅读 - 图书信息
| Arthur Jerome Eddy - 1901 - 722 页
...unconstitutional and void, the supreme court, by Chief Justice Marshall, defined the corporation as follows: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, k possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation... | |
| 1901 - 364 页
...idea — legal 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... | |
| Donald Littlefield Morrill - 1901 - 360 页
...name, notwithstanding tbe changes in the members by death or otherwise. Chief Justice Marshall said: "A corporation Is an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation ol law." Patents and Copyrights.— Congress has power to protect inventors and authors by securing... | |
| National Municipal League - 1901 - 362 页
...idea—legal 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... | |
| United States and Chilean Claims Commission - 1901 - 362 页
...corporation is defined as an artificial person like the State." (Cook, Corporations, 3d Edition, par. 1.) "It is an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law ; it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either... | |
| Arthur Jerome Eddy - 1901 - 892 页
...state or country could have any force or operation beyond the boundaries of the state enacting them. 'A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in the contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which... | |
| Horace La Fayette Wilgus - 1902 - 1252 页
...in the United States. p fi 518 (AD 1819), seems to have come from Coke and the Year Books. He says: "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 or its... | |
| 1903 - 1022 页
...in the Dartmouth College Case, 4 Wheat. 518, 4 L. Ed. 629, — that "a corporation is an artificial being — the mere creature of the law. It possesses only those properties which the charter of Town of Clarendon v. Rutland R. Co its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental... | |
| 1922 - 710 页
...possible the existence of all this great "financial world." According to Chief Justice Marshall, the corporation is "an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of the law." The corporation is chartered through the State, and its written charter is evidence of the authorized... | |
| Clifford G. Christians, John P. Ferré, P. Mark Fackler - 1993 - 286 页
...Corporations and Morality, chap. 2. 16. Chief Justice John Marshall initiated this definition in 1819: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in the contemplation of law. Being the mere creation of law, it possesses only those properties which... | |
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