 | United States. Congress. House - 1863 - 1180 pages
...franchise shall be forfeited by a violation of this act; by such name it may make contracts, sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court of law and equity as fully as natural persons; it may elect or appoint directors, and by its board of directors appoint a president, vice-president,... | |
 | 1864 - 496 pages
...franchise shall he forfeited by a violation of this act ; by such name it may make contracts, sue and he sued, complain and defend, in any court of law and equity as fully as natural persons; it may elect or appoint directors, and by its board of directors appoint a president, vice-president,... | |
 | James M. Hiatt - 1868 - 438 pages
...franchise shall be forfeited by a violation of this act ; by such name it may make contracts, sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court of law and equity as fully as natural persons; it may elect or appoint directors, and by its board of directors appoint a president, vice-president,... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1868 - 1516 pages
...the seal thereof; and said corporation shall at all times have power to make contracts, sue and l>e sued, complain and defend in any court of law and equity, as i'ully as natural persons, by the name designated in this act When deed« T»U4. Misnomer not to vitiate... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott - 1869 - 1028 pages
...is sooner dissolved or its franchise is forfeited. " By such name it may make contracts, sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court of law and equity, as fully as natural persons ; it may elect or appoint directors, and by its board of directors appoint a president, vice-president,... | |
 | Frederick Charles Brightly - 1869 - 680 pages
...franchise shall be forfeited by a violation of this act ; by such name it may make contracts, sue and be , and as often, as shall appear to be just : Provided, That if the prisoner be in cont j (6) it may elect or appoint directors, and by its board of directors appoint a president, vice-president,... | |
 | 1874 - 436 pages
...organization certificate, be a body corporate ; * * * by such name it may make contracts, sue and be sued, complain and defend in any court of law and equity as fully as natural persons; * * * and exercise under this act all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1870 - 600 pages
...franchise shall be forfeited by a violation of this act ; by such name it may make contracts, sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court of law and equity as fully as natural persons ; it may elect or appoint directors, and by its board of directors appoint a president, vice-president,... | |
 | 1873 - 462 pages
...among others, those of having a corporate name, and by such name making contracts, suing and defending in any court of law and equity as fully as natural persons. Their capital stock is raised by individual subscription, and their business is transacted by means... | |
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1871 - 648 pages
...succession by the name designated in its organization certificate, and may, by such name, " sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court of law and equity, as fully as natural persons." The effect of this provision is not to give to the corporation the right to sue, or the capacity to... | |
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To sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court of law and equity, as fully as natural persons. 
