 | James Madison Porter - Charters - 1837 - 72 pages
...Treatise on Corporations, a' work of undoubted authority, at page 21, &c. say: " In the popular meaning of the term, nearly every corporation is public, inasmuch as they are Created for the public benefit ; but yet if the whole interest does not belong to the government, or... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 398 pages
...inasmuch as they are enacted for the public benefit ; but yet, if the whole interest does not belong to government, or if the corporation is not created for...the administration of political or municipal power, the corporation is private. A bank, for instdnce, may be created voL. VIII. £ by the government for... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 696 pages
...Treaties on Corporations, a work of undoubted authority, at page 21, &c. says : " In the popular meaning of the term, nearly every corporation is public, inasmuch as they are created for the public benefit ; but yet if the whole interest does not belong to the government, or... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...so may each state singly. Per Iredell, J. 3 Dall. 447. Private corporations. In the popular meaning of the term, nearly every corporation is public, inasmuch as they are created for the public benefit ; but if the whole interest does not belong to the government, or if... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 1058 pages
...Stew. Rep. 401. But this is the law in respect to private corporations only. In the popular meaning of the term, nearly every corporation is public, inasmuch as they are created for the public benefit ; but if the whole interest does not belong to the government, or, if... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), John William Wallace - Court rules - 1849 - 584 pages
...publick, inasmuch as they are all Creer882703,rnHaticreated for the publick benefit. Yet if the whole g- interest does not belong to the government, or if...private corporation. Thus all bank, bridge, turnpike, rail road, APRIL .SESSIoNS, and canal companies are private corporations. In these and other similar... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...of contracts." The Trustees of Dartmouth College vs. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518. In the popular meaning of the term, nearly every corporation is public, inasmuch...bank, bridge, turnpike, railroad, and canal companies arc private corporations. In these and other similar cases the uses may, in a certain sense, be called... | |
 | William A. Shinn - Bankruptcy - 1873 - 546 pages
...public nature attach to every corporation, inasmuch as they are created for the public benefit, but if the corporation is not created for the administration of political or municipal power, the corporation is private, unless the whole interest belongs to the government. Banks created by the... | |
 | Bankruptcy - 1874 - 802 pages
...provisions of the Bankrupt Act. Adams v. Boston, Hartford & Erie RR Company. In the popular meaning of the term nearly every corporation is public, inasmuch as they are created for the public benefit. But if the whole interest does not belong to the government, or if... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1875 - 860 pages
...of contracts." The Trustees of Dartmouth College vs. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518. In the popular meaning of the term, nearly every corporation is public, inasmuch...benefit. Yet if the whole interest does not belong to thö government, or if the corporation is not created for the administration of political or municipal... | |
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In the popular meaning of the term, nearly every corporation is public, inasmuch as they are all created for the public benefit. Yet if the whole interest does not belong to the government, or if the corporation is not created for the administration of... 
