Corporate contracting
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 57 U.S. 524 - Timothy Fanning v. Charles Gregoire and Charles Bogg · 1853Most cited · 48 citing opinions
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The old rule was, that a corporation can make no contract which shall bind it except under its seal. That doctrine has long since been overruled, and it is now fully cstablished, that the agents of a corporation may bind it by parol.
How often courts cite the case defining “Corporate contracting”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Corporate contracting” — 48 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.