 | United States. Supreme Court - 1891 - 780 lapas
...conferred upon it by the legislature, is not voidable only, but wholly void, and of no legal effect. The objection to the contract is, not merely that the corporation ought not to hare made it, but that it could not make it. The contract canOpinion of the Court. not be ratified... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court - 1893 - 836 lapas
...conferred upon it by the Legislature — is not voidable only, but wholly void, and of no legal effect. The objection to the contract is not merely that the...to have made it, but that it could not make it. The contract cannot be ratified by either party, because it could not have Marble Company v. Harvey. been... | |
 | 1893 - 922 lapas
...conferred upon it by the Legislature, is not voidable only, but wholly void, and of no legal effect. The objection to the contract is not merely that the corporation ought not to have made it butthat it could not make it. The contract cannot be ratified by either party, because it could not... | |
 | Theodore William Dwight - 1894 - 940 lapas
...conferred upon it by the legislature, — is not voidable only, but wholly void, and of no legal effect. The objection to the contract is not merely that the...not to have made it, but that it could not make it. ... No performance on either side can give the unlawful contract any validity, or be the foundation... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1894 - 1070 lapas
...conferred upon it by the legislature — is not voidable only, but wholly void, and of no legal effect The objection to the contract is not merely that the corporation ought not to hare made it, but that it could not make it. The contract cannot be ratified by either party, because... | |
 | 1895 - 856 lapas
...conferred upon it by the legislature, is not voidable only, but wholly void and of no legal effect. The objection to the contract is not merely that the...to have made it, but that it could not make it The contract cannot be ratified by cither party, because it could not have been authorized by either."... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - 1903 - 778 lapas
...conferred upon it by the Legislature, is not voidable only, but wholly void and of no legal effect. The objection to the contract is not merely that the...to have made it, but that it could not make it. The contract cannot be ratified by either party, because it could not have been authorized by either. No... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1896 - 762 lapas
...conferred upon it by the legislature, is not voidable only, but wholly void, and of no legal effect — the objection to the contract is not merely that the...not to have made it, but that it could not make it. Such a contract cannot be ratified by either party, because it could not have been authorized by either.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1896 - 768 lapas
...conferred upon it by the legislature, is not voidable only, but wholly void, and of no legal effect — the objection to the contract is not merely that the...not to have made it, but that it could not make it. Such a contract cannot be ratified by either party, because it could not have been authorized by either.... | |
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... A contract of a corporation, which is ultra vires in the proper sense, that is to say, outside the object of its creation as defined in the law of its organization, and therefore beyond the powers conferred upon it by the Legislature, is not voidable... 
