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Page 57 - ... requisite for its immediate accommodation, in relation to the convenient transacting of its business, and such as shall have been bona fide mortgaged to it by way of security, or conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts, previously contracted in the course of its dealings, or purchased at sales upon judgments which shall have been obtained for such debts.
Page 58 - ... his, her, or their private or natural capacity or capacities; and shall be assignable and negotiable, in like manner, as if they were so issued by such private person or persons...
Page 55 - Corporation, and may be prosecuted to judgment and execution ; any condition, covenant or agreement to the contrary notwithstanding. But this shall not be construed to exempt the said Corporation, or the lands, tenements, goods or chattels of the same, from being also liable for and, chargeable with, the said excess. Such of the said directors who may have been absent when the said excess was contracted, or created, or who may have dissented from the resolution or act, whereby the same was...
Page 58 - ... not under the seal of the said corporation, shall be binding and obligatory upon the same, in the like manner, and with the like force and effect, as upon any private person or persons, if issued by him, her or them, in his. her or their private or natural capacity or capacities, and shall be assignable and negotiable...
Page 208 - ... shall be assignable by endorsement thereupon under the hand or hands of such person or persons, and of his, her or their assignee or assignees, and so as absolutely to transfer and vest the property thereof in each and every assignee or assignees, successively...
Page 95 - Incident to a corporation and shall be capable of taking and holding their said capital stock, and the increase and profits thereof and of enlarging the same from time to time by new subscriptions In such manner and form as they shall think...
Page 66 - ... or shall pass, utter, or publish, or attempt to pass, utter, or publish...
Page 42 - Assembly, and of purchasing taking and holding to them and their successors and assigns, and of selling transferring and conveying in fee simple or for any less estate all such lands tenements hereditaments and estate real and personal as shall be necessary to them in the prosecution of their work, and of suing and being sued and of doing all and every other matter and thing which a Corporation or body politic may lawfully do...
Page 41 - ... been filed in the office of the prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the county...
Page 164 - Stockholder [shall be entitled shall be according to the number of shares he shall hold, in the proportions following; that is to say: For one share, and not more than two shares, one vote: For every two shares above two and not exceeding ten, one vote: For every four shares above ten, and...