 | California. Legislature. Assembly - 1855 - 956 pages
...than by Chief Justice Marshall, in the Dartmouth College vs. Woodward. " A corporation," says he, " 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... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1895 - 1138 pages
...the question now under discussion. Regarded as a creature of the sovereign, a corporation has been defined to be " an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law." As such, it is obvious that there can be no such thing as a corporation which owes its existence to... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1859 - 738 pages
...Bl. Com. 467, 469. Marshall, C. J. 4 Whcaton's R. 518,636. Thompson, J. 14 Peters1 R. 122, 129. — An artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Marshall, C. 'J. 4 Wheaton's R. 636.— A franchise possessed by one or more individuals, who subsist... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 pages
...corporate property, but not the franchise. The Supreme Court of the Union have held, that a corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law, and possessing only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1864 - 674 pages
...possess." In Dartmouth College v. Woodward. (4 Wheat., 518), the same eminent judge says: "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... | |
 | 1898 - 534 pages
...Chief Justice Marshall, a pretty good authority in his day, defined a corporation In a dozen words: "An artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only In contemplation of law." This has never been Improved upon, and Mr. Morawetz, who has a great gift of clear statement, opened... | |
 | Elliott Anthony - 1865 - 320 pages
...the .company, are also parties. The corporation itself, which is the offspring of the charter, and is an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law, is also, in a certain sense, a party. But as the latter can only act through the medium of its trustees,... | |
 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - 1867 - 744 pages
...corporation is well defined, as to the general sense of the term, by Chief Justice Marshall f as " an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." It is, in fact, the mere creature or creation of the law. Endowed by its charter with the capacity... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1868 - 624 pages
...to it, and, therefore, it should not be presumed to have assented to such transfer. A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. The only mode to give notice, or to communicate knowledge, to such artificial being, invisible and intangible,... | |
 | W.W.Lester - 1870 - 404 pages
...the act. Corporations must, therefore, be permitted to share in its benefits, But "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... | |
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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... 
