 | Alain Lancelot Oliver - 1850 - 48 pages
...means of which a succession of individuals may take property, without the perplexing intricacies, or hazardous and endless necessity of perpetual conveyances,...the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. They may constantly act for the promotion of a particular object, like an immortal being. These are... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 674 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, the hazardous and endless necessity of perpetual conveyance, for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chiefly for the purpose of... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 674 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, the hazardous and endless necessities of perpetual conveyances, for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chiefly... | |
 | California. Legislature. Assembly - 1855 - 956 pages
...its very existence. These properties," continues he, " 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 chiefly for the purpose of clothing... | |
 | 1858 - 564 pages
...manage its own affairs, and to " hold property without the perplexing intricacies, the hazar" dous and endless necessity of perpetual conveyances for...the " purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. The charter " or act of incorporation, a law peculiar to itself, not only " specifies the particular... | |
 | James Kent - 1858 - 966 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... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 pages
...corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold property, without the perplexing intricacies, the hazards and endless necessity of perpetual conveyances, for...purpose of clothing bodies of men, in succession, with those qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented, and are in use. By these means, a... | |
 | John C. Devereux - 1868 - 444 pages
...corporation remains and can be kept up. 4. For what purpose were corporations inventedf — 268. 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 they were originally... | |
 | California - 1872 - 728 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,...capacities that corporations were invented and are in use." In the Providence Bank vs. Billings, 4 Pet., p. 502, the learned Chief Justice says: "The great object... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1872 - 1274 pages
...intricacies, the ardous and endless necessity of perpetual conveyance for the purpose of transmitit from hand to hand. It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in eesion with these qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented and are From the abo\ e... | |
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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... 
