 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...with these qualities and capacities, to cor' porations were invented, and are in use. By the* means, a perpetual succession of individuals are capable...particular object, like one immortal being. But this hein; does not share in the civil government of t country, unless that be the purpose for «™c it... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 990 pages
...purposes, it constituted them an immortal being ; but of this being it has been correctly said, that " its immortality no more confers on it political power,...political character, than immortality would confer such power or character on u natural perspn."" If in fact the incorporation be obtained before the association... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...with these qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented, and are in use. By these means a perpetual succession of individuals are capable...promotion of the particular object, like one immortal beingf\ But this being does not share in the civil government of the country, unless that be the purpose... | |
 | James R. Hope - 1840 - 76 pages
...with these qualities and capacities that " corporations were invented and are in use. By " these means a perpetual succession of individuals " are capable of acting for the promotion of the par" ticular objects like one immortal being." Then he proceeds to inquire what gives a legislative... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 800 pages
...with these qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented and are in use. By these means a perpetual succession of individuals are capable...of the particular object like one immortal being." Again, the Providence Bank and Billings, 4 Peters, 514, it is said, " the great object of an incorporation... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Church and education - 1850 - 814 pages
...incorporating act change the character of a private, eleemosynary institution." Again : " A corporation's immortality, no more confers on it political power,...political character, than immortality would confer such power, or character, on a natural person. It is no more a State instrument, than a natural person,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...with these qualities and capacities that corporations were invented, and are in use. By these means, a perpetual succession of individuals are capable...country, unless that be the purpose for which it was created.x Its immortality no more confers on it political power, or a political character, than immortality... | |
 | California. Legislature. Assembly - 1855 - 956 pages
...succession with these qualities and capacities that corporations were invented and used. By these means, a perpetual succession of individuals are capable...of the particular object, like one immortal being." In another case this eminent jurist says, " the great object of a corporation is to bestow the character... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...corporations were invented, and are in use. By these means, a perpetual succession of individual» are capable of acting for the promotion of the particular object, like our immortal being. Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518; 4 Cond. Rep. 543. 13. There are two... | |
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It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented, and are in use. By these means a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for the promotion... 
