 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...incorporation ? Let this subject be -*"^^v"^fc' dered. Dartmouth . . . . ... College A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of b. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses oaly those properties which the charter of its creation... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...Dartmouth College against Woodward, 4 Wheat. Rep. 636, Chief Justice Marshall describes a corporation to be "an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing...contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law," continues the judge, " it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 738 pages
...name." In Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636, Ch. J. MARSHALL said : "A corporation is au artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing...in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either... | |
 | Commercial law - 1847 - 554 pages
...4 Wheat. 636, the same principle was again decided by the Court. " A corporation," said the Court, "is 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 confers... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 680 pages
...the promisee, is not a good defence. Ibid. See Equity, 12. Surety, 2. CORPORATIONS. 1. A corporation is an artificial being — invisible, intangible,...and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the creature of the law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 674 pages
...Book 1, part 1, tit. 2, chap. 2. No. 180. It is, as it is well observed by Chief Justice Marshall, " an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. "(a) CHAPTER H.— OF THE CREATION OF A CORPORATION. 179. Unlike the law of England, which allows the... | |
 | John Cleaveland - Banking law - 1857 - 452 pages
...r,f Watrrtoxn, 1 Hill, 616, 620. CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL'S DEFINITION OF A CORPORATION. "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of Inw. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation... | |
 | Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1895 - 1138 pages
...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 - Dictionaries, Law - 1859 - 736 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 - International and municipal law - 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... | |
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A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. 
