Federal Decisions: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme, Circuit and District Courts of the United States, Volume 10Gilbert Book Company, 1884 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... entitled " An act to organize and regulate banking associations , " which subscriptions were received . That afterwards the defend- ants were elected directors of said Detroit City Bank or banking association , and then and there ...
... entitled " An act to organize and regulate banking associations , " which subscriptions were received . That afterwards the defend- ants were elected directors of said Detroit City Bank or banking association , and then and there ...
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... entitled to priority over the second mortgage bonds ; and , therefore , that the bonds , being thus changed in their legal effect , lost the benefit of the guaranty and the priority to which they would otherwise have been entitled ...
... entitled to priority over the second mortgage bonds ; and , therefore , that the bonds , being thus changed in their legal effect , lost the benefit of the guaranty and the priority to which they would otherwise have been entitled ...
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... entitled to by the by - laws of the corporation . Payson v . Withers , SS 215-219 . § 93. Subscribers to the stock of a foreign corporation cannot say they are ignorant of the terms of the act creating that corporation . They are ...
... entitled to by the by - laws of the corporation . Payson v . Withers , SS 215-219 . § 93. Subscribers to the stock of a foreign corporation cannot say they are ignorant of the terms of the act creating that corporation . They are ...
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... entitled to a certain number of shares in the company , and that they were subject in future to the payment of such assessments as might be made in case of loss or other necessity , and to all the obligations and liabilities of the ...
... entitled to a certain number of shares in the company , and that they were subject in future to the payment of such assessments as might be made in case of loss or other necessity , and to all the obligations and liabilities of the ...
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... entitled to offset against his liability to pay the sum due on his valid stock the money paid on his void stock . It is a general rule that a holder of claims against an insolvent corporation cannot set them off against his liability ...
... entitled to offset against his liability to pay the sum due on his valid stock the money paid on his void stock . It is a general rule that a holder of claims against an insolvent corporation cannot set them off against his liability ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.