The First Book in English on the Law of IncorporationRyder's Printing House, 1903 - 43 pages |
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Page 36 - If a sum of money " be to be levied upon a corporation, it may be levied upon the " mayor or chief magistrate, or upon any person- being a member
Page 35 - It will certainly require no argument to prove that one of the means, by which some of these objects are to be accomplished, is contract; the government, therefore, is capable of contracting, and its contracts may be made in the name of the United States.
Page 8 - A CORPORATION is a franchise possessed by one or more individuals, who subsist, as a body politic, under a special denomination, and are vested, by the policy of the law, with the capacity of perpetual succession, and of acting in several respects, however numerous the association may be, as a single individual.
Page 4 - OF CORPORATIONS, Fraternities, AND GUILDS, OR, a Discourse, wherein THE LEARNING of the LAW touching Bodies-Politique is unfolded, shewing the USE and NECESSITY of that INVENTION, the ANTIQUITY, various Kinds, Order and Government of the same.
Page 35 - The United States is a government, and, consequently, a body politic and corporate, capable of attaining the objects for which it was created, by the means which are necessary for their attainment. This great corporation was ordained and established by the American people, and endowed by them with great powers for important purposes.
Page 24 - An act of parliament may not make adultery lawful, that is, it cannot make it lawful for A. to lie with the wife of B. but it may make the wife of A. to be the wife of B. and dissolve her marriage with A.
Page 24 - And what my Lord Coke says in Dr. Bonham's case in his 8 Co. is far from any extravagancy, for it is a very reasonable and true saying, that if an Act of Parliament should ordain that the same person should be party and Judge, or, which is the same thing, Judge in his own cause, it would be a void Act of Parliament...
Page 16 - ... worthy to be moved at the bar, nor remembered at the bench ; and that this case was adjourned to the Exchequer chamber by the justices of the King's bench, more for the weight of value than for the difficulty of the law in the case.
Page 38 - I am your king and lord, good people," the boy began with a fearlessness which marked his bearing throughout the crisis; "what will you?" " We will that you free us for ever," shouted the peasants, " us and our lands ; and that we be never named nor held for serfs!
Page 12 - ... to this intent alone, and not to any other, etc. But then it seems they are only tenants at will: and if the queen release or grant to them the said rent and fee-farm, it should seem the corporation is dissolved ipso facto, for the rent and farm was the cause which enabled the corporation, etc. Ideo quaere.