Corporate identity
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 210 U.S. 206 - Old Dominion Copper Mining Smelting Company v. Frederick Lewisohn · 1908Most cited · 190 citing opinions
On the one hand, the plaintiff cannot recover without departing from the fundamental conception embodied in the law that created it,—the conception that a corporation remains unchanged and unaffected in its identity by changes in its members.
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