...it exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of law; and where that law ceases to operate, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation. It had been decided, in the case of The Bank v. Deveaux, 5 Cr., 61 (§§ 1344— 45, supra), long before...

...existence beyond the limits of the sovereignty, where created. As said by this court in Bank, v. Earle: "It must dwell in the place of its creation and cannot migrate to another sovereignty. The recognition of its existence, even by other states, and the enforcement of its contracts made therein,...

...capacity : Lijcnminy t'irc Ins. ('<iv Liniyla/, lili Md. Although it is settled law that a cnrpnration must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty, yet it may iuess in all places where its charter allows and local laws do not forbid; and in the absence...

...Company v. Gebhard, 109 US 527, 537, 3 Sup. Ct. 363, 27 L. Ed. 1020, the court say : "A corporation 'must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty' (Hank of Augusta v. Earle. 13 Pet. 588 [10 L. Ed. 274]). though it may do business in all places whore...

...out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it ia created. It exists only in contemplation of law; and where that law ceases to operate and is no...existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and can not migrate to another sovereignty." Th« cases of McCall v. The Byram Manufacturing Co., 6 Conn....

...exists by force of the law, and where that ceases to operate the corporation can have no existence; that it must dwell in the place of its creation and cannot migrate to another sovereignty and that it cannot hold meetings, pass votes, or do any corporate acts strictly so called outside of...

...beyond the limjts 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.' The recognition of its existence even by other States, and the enforcement of its contracts made therein,...

...770, 33 L. Ed. 157. The reason of the rule "doos not lie In the imaginative notion that a corporation 'must dwell In the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty,' but rather In the hardship and fraud it might entail on shareholders to permit corporate meetings to be...

..."A corporation can have no legal existence out of the sovereignty by which it is created." " It'must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty." Bank v. -Eadc, 13 Pet. 584; Runyanv. Coster, 14 Pet. 129; Railroad Co. v. Wheeler, 1 Black, 295; County...

...when the dictum of Chief Justice Taney appeared in Bank of Augusta v. Earle 21 in 1839. He tells us: "A corporation can have no legal existence out of...creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty." The source of the doctrines of the early cases and of Chief Justice Taney's theory is of course very...