Leading Cases on Private Corporations: To Accompany Principles of Private CorporationsBowen-Merrill Company, 1898 - 341 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 258
... matter of fact , to control the corporation , and affect the transaction of its business , in the same manner as if the act had been clothed with all the formalities of a corporate act . This must be so , because , the stockholders ...
... matter of fact , to control the corporation , and affect the transaction of its business , in the same manner as if the act had been clothed with all the formalities of a corporate act . This must be so , because , the stockholders ...
الصفحة 273
... matters therein stated in any court of law and equity in this state . " Cobb's Digest , 542 , 543 . By the act of 1845 the provisions of the act of 1843 are extended to all associations and companies whatever , except banks and ...
... matters therein stated in any court of law and equity in this state . " Cobb's Digest , 542 , 543 . By the act of 1845 the provisions of the act of 1843 are extended to all associations and companies whatever , except banks and ...
الصفحة 278
... matter of fact , the charter in this case was accepted under the old constitution , must be determined on a trial of the cause below . Had the provision in our constitution , like that on this subject in the constitution of Ohio ...
... matter of fact , the charter in this case was accepted under the old constitution , must be determined on a trial of the cause below . Had the provision in our constitution , like that on this subject in the constitution of Ohio ...
الصفحة 306
... matters of police . " Metropolitan Board . of Excise v . Barrie , 34 N. Y. , 657 ; Boyd v . Alabama , 94 U. S. , 645. Many attempts have been made in this court and else- where to define the police power , but never with entire success ...
... matters of police . " Metropolitan Board . of Excise v . Barrie , 34 N. Y. , 657 ; Boyd v . Alabama , 94 U. S. , 645. Many attempts have been made in this court and else- where to define the police power , but never with entire success ...
الصفحة 307
... matter how carefully regulated , cannot admit of a doubt . When the government is untrammeled by any claim of vested rights or chartered privileges , no one has ever supposed that lotteries could not lawfully be suppressed , and those ...
... matter how carefully regulated , cannot admit of a doubt . When the government is untrammeled by any claim of vested rights or chartered privileges , no one has ever supposed that lotteries could not lawfully be suppressed , and those ...
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agents agreement alleged amount appellant applied assets association authority Bank bill board of directors bonds by-laws capital stock car company cause of action certificate charter circuit court claim collateral security complaint constitution contract corporation court of equity creditors damages Dartmouth college debts defendant doctrine duty Edward Butler enforce equity evidence executed existence fact faith fraud granted ground held hold holders illegal incorporation individual insolvent intent interest issued judgment Justice legislature liability loan manufacturing ment mining option mortgage natural persons objects officers organized owner paid pany par value parties payment plaintiff plaintiff in error poration preferred stock principle provisions purchase purpose question quo warranto railroad company received road rule Seligman Seligman & Co shareholders shares of stock statute stockholders subscribed subscription suit SUPREME COURT thereof tion transaction transfer trust fund ultra vires unpaid valid vote wrong
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الصفحة 294 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it. either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence.
الصفحة 424 - ... shall be liable in like manner, and to the same extent as the testator or intestate. or the ward or person interested in such trust fund would have been, if he had been living and competent to act, and held the same stock in his own name.
الصفحة 456 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
الصفحة 328 - No association shall make any loan or discount on the security of the shares of its own capital stock, nor be the purchaser or holder of any such shares, unless such security or purchase shall be necessary to prevent loss upon a debt previously contracted in good faith...
الصفحة 371 - As a creditors' bill, in the ordinary sense, the complaint is manifestly insufficient. The thresher company, however, plants itself upon the so-called "trust-fund" doctrine .that the capital stock of a corporation is a trust fund for the payment of its debts; its contention being that such a
الصفحة 373 - Every share in any company shall be deemed and taken to have been issued, and to be held, subject to the payment of the whole amount thereof in cash...
الصفحة 532 - ... the Judgment must be reversed, and the case remanded to the Circuit Court, with directions to set aside the verdict, and to order a new trial.
الصفحة 524 - In this court, the doctrine is well settled, that in actions of tort the jury, in addition to the sum awarded by way of compensation for the plaintiff's injury, may award exemplary, punitive or vindictive damages, sometimes called smart money, if the defendant has acted wantonly, or oppressively, or with such malice as implies a spirit of mischief or criminal indifference to civil obligations.
الصفحة 291 - If the act of incorporation be a grant of political power, if it create a civil institution to be employed in the administration of the government, or if the funds of the college be public property, or if the State of New Hampshire, as a government, be alone interested in its transactions, the subject is one in which the legislature of the state may act according to its own judgment...
الصفحة 308 - That the framers of the constitution did not intend to restrain the states in the regulation of their civil institutions, adopted for internal government, and that the instrument they have given us, is not to be so construed, may be admitted.