Laws of the State of New York: Passed at the Sessions of the Legislature Held in the Years 1777-1801, Being the First Twenty-four Sessions, Volume 4

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Weed, Parsons, 1887 - Law

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Page 79 - and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continual succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters and causes whatsoever; and...
Page 377 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all courts of record, or any other place whatsoever...
Page 242 - May, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, shall and may have continual succession ; and shall be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended in all courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters, and causes whatsoever : And that they and their successors may have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at their pleasure...
Page 115 - Not less than seven directors shall constitute a board for the transaction of business, of whom the president shall always be one, except in case of sickness, or necessary absence: in which case his place may be supplied by any other director whom he, by writing under his hand, shall nominate for the purpose.
Page 500 - All grants of land within this State, made by the king of Great Britain, or persons acting under his authority, after the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, shall be null and void; but nothing contained in this Constitution shall affect any grants of land within this State, made by the authority of the said king or his predecessors, or shall annul any charters to bodies politic and corporate, by him or them made, before that day...
Page 465 - That the said proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America be, and the same is hereby ratified by the Legislature of the State of Washington.
Page 243 - That in case it should at any time happen, that an election of directors should not be made on any day when, pursuant to this Act, it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not, for that cause, be deemed to be dissolved, but...
Page 203 - The Corporation for the Relief of Widows and Children of Clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York...
Page 108 - ... the person administering the government of this State for the time being and in each of the members of the Council of Appointment.
Page 19 - ... then it shall be lawful for the said justices, and they are hereby required, to make an order in writing under their hands...

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