 | Marion R. Fremont-Smith - 2008 - 580 pages
...corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold property without the perplexing intricacies, the ha/ardous and endless necessity, of perpetual conveyances for...these means, a perpetual succession of individuals is capable of acting for the promotion of the particular object, like one immortal thing.167 This definition... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - 2004 - 384 pages
...affairs, and to hold property, without the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity, or perpetual conveyances for the purpose of transmitting...these means, a perpetual succession of individuals is capable of acting for the promotion of the particular object, like one immortal being. But this... | |
 | Kenneth Lipartito, David B. Sicilia - 2004 - 396 pages
...this attribute of personhood in his famous 1819 Dartmouth College decision, pointing out that it was "chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men,...capacities, that corporations were invented, and are in use."5 The most important initial difference between corporations and partnerships, therefore, was... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - 2010 - 375 pages
...a single individual. They enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold property. ... It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of...qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented" (634). The state, then, when it chartered a corporation, fashioned an immortal individuality (or artificial... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - 2010 - 375 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, or perpetual conveyances for the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chiefly for the... | |
 | Glen Yeadon - 2008 - 528 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,...the purpose of transmitting it from hand to hand. . . But this being does not share in the civil government of the country, unless that be the purpose... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1910 - 1352 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,...chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men with these .qualities and capacities, that corporations were invented and are in use."1 768*] *If the... | |
 | United States. Dept. of the Interior - 1871 - 1406 pages
...perplexing intricacies, the hazardous and endless necessity of perpetual conveyance for the purposo of transmitting it from hand to hand. It is chiefly...capacities, that corporations were invented and are in use." From the above it is apparent that in general the terms, citizen and corporation, are distinct and... | |
 | 1897 - 366 pages
...perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of...are in use. By these means a perpetual succession pf individuals are capable of acting for the promotion of a particular object like one immortal being.... | |
 | 1821 - 386 pages
...single individual. They • enable a corporation to manage its own affairs, and to hold pro" perty without the perplexing intricacies, the hazardous...to hand. It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bo•• dies of men, in succession, with these qualities and capacities, that *' corporations are... | |
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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... 
