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" necessary for a corporation to purchase and hold, shares of stock in a state bank except as such stock might be taken in payment of debts in good faith owing to the corporation. "The word 'person' may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate... "
Annual Report of the Commissioner of the Banking Department of the State of ... - Page xxxvii
by Michigan. Banking Division - 1926
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 365

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1961 - 972 pages
...Resolutions of Congress, and Rules for the Construction thereof." Section 2 of this Act provides that "the word 'person' may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate." " « Id., 804. " Id.. 804. « Ibid. •"See especially the comments of Senator Sherman. Id., 820-821....
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Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States ..., Part 35

United States. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission - 1968 - 822 pages
...further provides that, " 'Person' or 'persons' as well as all words referring to or importing persons, may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as individuals." u Where a West Virginia corporation appealed an order entered by the Secretary of State...
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Civil Rights Improvements Act of 1977: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - 1978 - 788 pages
...with the understanding of the 42d Congress that unless the context revealed a more limited definition, "the word 'person' may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate • • • ." Act of Feb. 25. 1871. eh. 71, S 2, 16 Stat. 431. It also accords with the interpretation...
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Civil Rights Improvements Act of 1977: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - 1978 - 798 pages
...supplied rules of construction for all legislation, provided : "That in all acts hereafter passed » » » the word 'person' may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate * * * unless the context shows that such words were intended to be used in a more limited sense »...
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Laws of the State of Illinois Enacted by the General Assembly

Illinois - 1913 - 696 pages
...females. Fifth—The word "person" or "persons" as well as all words referring to or importing persons, may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as individuals. Sixth—The words "insane person" and "lunatic" shall include every idiot, non compos,...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 436

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1980 - 1000 pages
...supplied rules of construction for all legislation, provided: "That in all acts hereafter passed . . . the word 'person' may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate . . . unless the context shows that such words were intended to be used in a more limited sense . ....
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 440

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1981 - 1016 pages
...before the enactment of the Civil Rights Act. Congress provided that "in all acts hereafter passed . . . the word 'person' may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate . . . unless the context shows that such words were intended to be used in a more limited sense." 11...
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Material Events: Paul De Man and the Afterlife of Theory

Tom Cohen - 2001 - 406 pages
...post—Civil War Reconstruction) that the so-called Dictionary Act was first passed by Congress, in which the word Person “may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate.” More recently, the question of fetal personhood has been debated, not only in the Roe v. Wade decision,...
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The Case for Black Reparations

Boris Bittker - 2003 - 212 pages
...phrases used by Congress in statutes are defined and its definition of “person” is relevant here: mhe word “person” may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate . . . unless the context shows that [it was] intended to be used in a more limited sense.” This presumptively...
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Treatise of the Law of Private Corporations Aggregate

Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Samuel Ames, John Lathrop - 2005 - 868 pages
...case, 3 Bland, Ch. 442. It is specially provided, in the Revised Statutes of some of the States, that " the word person may extend, and be applied to bodies...politic and corporate, as well as to individuals." Thus, in the general provisions in the Revised Statutes of Massachusetts (ch. 2, s. 6). Undoubtedly,...
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