Federal Decisions: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme, Circuit and District Courts of the United States, المجلد 10Gilbert Book Company, 1884 |
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... transaction . And more especially they cannot subject an individual to a pecuniary penalty for an act which , when done , involved no responsibility . But as the case now stands this question does not arise . The obligation , if ...
... transaction . And more especially they cannot subject an individual to a pecuniary penalty for an act which , when done , involved no responsibility . But as the case now stands this question does not arise . The obligation , if ...
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... transaction which is im- moral , or subversive of public policy , or in contravention of a statute . When the transaction has been consummated , or the contract has been executed , if the parties to it are in pari delicto , neither will ...
... transaction which is im- moral , or subversive of public policy , or in contravention of a statute . When the transaction has been consummated , or the contract has been executed , if the parties to it are in pari delicto , neither will ...
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... transaction cannot be recovered back , where both parties are in pari delicto , and that no distinction exists as to the right of recovery , be- tween cases of partial and of entire performance . Notwithstanding the great respect which ...
... transaction cannot be recovered back , where both parties are in pari delicto , and that no distinction exists as to the right of recovery , be- tween cases of partial and of entire performance . Notwithstanding the great respect which ...
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... transaction to persevere in their efforts to violate the law . That the transaction in furtherance of which the payment was made has never been consummated is clear . Before any stock was issued , the scheme to issue it was rescinded by ...
... transaction to persevere in their efforts to violate the law . That the transaction in furtherance of which the payment was made has never been consummated is clear . Before any stock was issued , the scheme to issue it was rescinded by ...
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... transaction , there is no pretense to say that the fifteen thousand shares were stock . They constituted a part of the capital stock , as provided in the charter , but in no other sense were they stock . The corporate powers of the ...
... transaction , there is no pretense to say that the fifteen thousand shares were stock . They constituted a part of the capital stock , as provided in the charter , but in no other sense were they stock . The corporate powers of the ...
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الصفحة 628 - Every railroad company shall have the right with its road to intersect, connect with, or cross, any other railroad; and shall receive and transport each the other's passengers, tonnage, and cars, loaded or empty, without delay or discrimination.
الصفحة 370 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
الصفحة 23 - The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the legislature, shall be requisite to every bill appropriating the public moneys or property, for local or private purposes, or creating, continuing, altering, or renewing any body politic or corporate.
الصفحة 489 - The corporation being the mere creation of local law, can have no legal existence beyond the limits of the sovereignty where created. As said by this court in Bank of Augusta v. Earle, "It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
الصفحة 477 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
الصفحة 489 - It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law ; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
الصفحة 667 - ... upon condition that said company shall pay said bonds at maturity, and shall keep said railroad and telegraph line in repair and use, and shall at all times transmit dispatches over said telegraph line, and transport mails, troops and munitions of war, supplies and public stores upon said railroad for the government, whenever required to do so by any department thereof, and that the government shall at all times have the preference in the use of the same for all the purposes aforesaid (at fair...
الصفحة 661 - State shall be subject to the disposal of the legislature thereof, for the purposes aforesaid and no other; and the said railroad and branches shall be and remain a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
الصفحة 62 - Though it be a doctrine of modern date, we think it now well established that the capital stock of a corporation, especially its unpaid subscriptions, is a trust fund for the benefit of the general creditors of the corporation.
الصفحة 39 - 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.