 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - 1870 - 708 pages
...provision against it. 2. But it can do no organic corporate act without the state of its creation. " It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty." 3. By comity in the American states, corporations created in one state may sue in the courts of other... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Erasmus Peshine Smith, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand - 1870 - 704 pages
...that it exists only in contemplation of law and by force of law ; and when that law ceases to operate, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation. The same was affirmed in the case of Opinion of the Court, per MASON, J. the Louisville, Cincinnati... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals - 1871 - 880 pages
...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...existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation and can not migrate to another sovereignty. But although it must live and have its being in that state... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1872 - 688 pages
...boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and when that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory,...creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty." 13 Peters 587, '8. 4. While it may be true that a foreign corporation — not of legal right, but by... | |
 | David Dudley Field - 1872 - 522 pages
...territorial limits of the sovereignty which creates it. It exists by force of the law : and where that ceases to operate and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It cannot migrate to another sovereignty, and can only have transactions from its home, through its agents.... | |
 | William A. Shinn - 1873 - 546 pages
...which it is created ; that it exists only by force of law, and that where that law ceases to operate the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation." Can a corporation be said to have a last or usual place of residence in a place where it cannot exist... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1875 - 674 pages
...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...existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and can not migrate to another sovereignty. But although it must live and have its being in that state... | |
 | John Barbee Minor - 1876 - 686 pages
...by force of the law, it can have no absolute and independent being where that law ceases to operate. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty. But it does not follow that its existence in its own proper habitat may not be recognized in other places.... | |
 | John Proffatt - 1876 - 252 pages
...It can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by •which it is created, must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty." A corporation was chartered in Connecticut for the purpose of buying and selling land. Held, that it... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1877 - 740 pages
...limits of the sovereignty which created it. As was said in Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 13 Pet. 538: "It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force...creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty." Yet by the comity of nations the existence of a foreign corporation will be recognized in other countries,... | |
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Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 13 Peters, 519, Mr. Chief Justice TANEY announcing the opinion of the court said: "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... 
