 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 pages
...supposedly calculated to effect the object for which it was at ated. Among the most important are immortafo and, if the expression may be allowed, individuality properties, by which a perpetual succession of BMJ persons are considered as the same, and may acts a single individual. They enable a -corporation... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. Joint Committee on the Communication of the Auditor of State - 1821 - 76 pages
..."These are such as are supposed best calculated " to effect the objects for which it was created. " Among the most important, are immortality, and, **if...succession of "many persons are considered as the same, and <{ naay act as a single individual. They enable a u corporation to manage ils own affairs, and to hold... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important are immortality, and, if...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... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 pages
...existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important are immortality, and if the...persons are considered as the same, and may act as 354 COR 355 the single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - 1847 - 704 pages
...nature of things, speaks of lhis feature of a corporation in this way : " A corporation is an ariificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in...allowed, individuality ; properties, by which a perpetual successon of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. Dartmouth... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created—among the most important are, immortality, and if the expression...persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual." The question in this case was, whether the law of the State abolishing its old... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 pages
...existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important are immortality, and, if...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... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 674 pages
...existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important are immortality, and, if...individuality ; properties by which a perpetual succession of persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation to... | |
 | 1858 - 564 pages
...character and properties " of individuality on a collective and changing body of men. " By those means, perpetual succession of many persons " are considered as the same, and may act as an indivi" dual, thereby enabled to manage its own affairs, and to " hold property without the perplexing... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 pages
...object for which it was created. Among the most important are, immortality, and if the expression maybe allowed, individuality: properties by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered the same persons, and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs,... | |
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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. 
