 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 pages
...single individual. They enable a -corporation :. manage its own affairs, and to hold property «*K the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the purposot transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chieflj fif the purpose of clothing bodies of men,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 990 pages
...the same, and may act. as a single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own -a flairs, and to hold property, without the perplexing intricacies,...chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men with these qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented and are .in use"" a Dartmouth... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 952 pages
...resulting from the death of its members, and from the transfers of its shares and interests ; from the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity of perpetual conveyances for transferring their property, as well as the still greater inconvenience of pursuing its rights and... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...the same, and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold property without the perplexing intricacies,...conveyances for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand.(^It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with these qualities... | |
 | James R. Hope - 1840 - 76 pages
...and its individuality, and then he said, " They enable a corporation to manage " its own affairs, or to hold property, without the " perplexing intricacies,...endless " necessity, of perpetual conveyances for the pur" pose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is " chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 pages
...may act as 354 COR 355 the single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold property without the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity of perpetual conveyance for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chieffy for the purpose of clothing... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1845 - 796 pages
...as the same and may act as a single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold property without the perplexing intricacies,...purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chieffy for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession with these qualities and capacities,... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Lansing Wendell - 1847 - 704 pages
...the same, and may act as the single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold property without the perplexing intricacies,...the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand." Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 636. Angel fy Ames on Corp. 2. A peculiar sort of individuality,... | |
 | James Kent - 1848 - 1046 pages
...so long as a succession of individual members of the corporation remains, and can be kept up. It was chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession, with the qualities and capacities of one single, artificial, and fictitious being, that corporations were... | |
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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 arc in use. By these means, a perpetual succession of individuals are capable of acting for the promotion of... 
