...franchise derived from the State, by direct or indirect grant, and by them accepted. A corporation being a mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties...expressly or as incidental to its very existence; but this implies a right or authority to confer on individuals the special privileges or franchises...

...How. 16 ; Runyan v. Coster's Lessee, 14 Pet. 122. " A corporation, being the mere creature of law, possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly, or as incidental to its very existence." MARSHALL, CJ, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518, 636. "An incidental power is one that...

...petition cannot be enforced. "A corporation, being the creature of the law, possesses only those powers which the charter of its creation confers upon it,...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." 7 La. Ann. 314. "The modern doctrine," says Chancellor KENT, '• is to consider corporations as having...

...authorizes." In the celebrated Dartmouth College Case, Chief Justice Marshall said : "A corporation la an artificial being, Invisible, Intangible, and existing only In contemplation of law. Being a mere creature of the law, It possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation coufers...

...clearly and accurately defined by that greatest of all jurists. Chief Justice Marshall, in these words: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...its creation confers upon it, either expressly or incidental to its very existence." Subsequently he added that "the great object of an incorporation...

...4 How., 16; Runyan v. Coster's Lessee, 14 Pet., 122. "A corporation being the mere creature of law, possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly or as incidental to its very existence." MARSHALL, CJ, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat., 518, 636. "An incidental power is one that...

...the Dartmouth College case, (4 Wheaton, 632,) that Chief Justice Marshall gave the definition that: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible,...intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." It has the elements of immortality and of individuality. "The benefit to the public is considered as...

...corporations. 5 11. Municipal corporations. S 12. What bodies are not, corporations. § 1. Definition.— A corporation is an artificial being; invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law;1 and it possesses only those properties and power* which are conferred upon it by its creator.2...

...no new principle. In the case of Dartmouth, College v. Woodward (4 Wheat., 636), this court says, " a corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible,...incidental to its very existence. These are such as were supposed uest calculated to effect the object for which it was created. Among the most important...

...compensation. We fully agree that this corporation is the creature of the law, and that being such " it possesses only those properties which the charter...expressly or as incidental to its very existence;" Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518, 636; and that grants of power to individuals to construct,...