 | Henry Edward Wallace - 1879 - 676 pages
...franchise derived from the State, by direct or indirect grant, and by them accepted. A corporation being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties...expressly or as incidental to its very existence; but this implies a right or authority to confer on individuals the special privileges or franchises... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 912 pages
...How. 16 ; Runyan v. Coster's Lessee, 14 Pet. 122. " A corporation, being the mere creature of law, possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence." MARSHALL, CJ, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518, 636. "An incidental power is one that... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 886 pages
...petition cannot be enforced. "A corporation, being the creature of the law, possesses only those powers which the charter of its creation confers upon it,...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." 7 La. Ann. 314. "The modern doctrine," says Chancellor KENT, '• is to consider corporations as having... | |
 | 1903 - 1108 pages
...authorizes." In the celebrated Dartmouth College Case, Chief Justice Marshall said : "A corporation la an artificial being, Invisible, Intangible, and existing only In contemplation of law. Being a mere creature of the law, It possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation coufers... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1889 - 1162 pages
...clearly and accurately defined by that greatest of all jurists. Chief Justice Marshall, in these words: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...its creation confers upon it, either expressly or incidental to its very existence." Subsequently he added that "the great object of an incorporation... | |
 | George Washington Field - 1881 - 620 pages
...4 How., 16; Runyan v. Coster's Lessee, 14 Pet., 122. "A corporation being the mere creature of law, possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." MARSHALL, CJ, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat., 518, 636. "An incidental power is one that... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1905 - 274 pages
...the Dartmouth College case, (4 Wheaton, 632,) that Chief Justice Marshall gave the definition that: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." It has the elements of immortality and of individuality. "The benefit to the public is considered as... | |
 | Charles Theodore Boone - 1881 - 626 pages
...corporations. 5 11. Municipal corporations. S 12. What bodies are not, corporations. § 1. Definition.— A corporation is an artificial being; invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law;1 and it possesses only those properties and power* which are conferred upon it by its creator.2... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1883 - 1240 pages
...no new principle. In the case of Dartmouth, College v. Woodward (4 Wheat., 636), this court says, " a corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible,...incidental to its very existence. These are such as were supposed uest calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important... | |
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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... 
