Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward

(1819). Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward.

Type

Court case

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1819

Link

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/17/518/

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Primes

• Metonymy
  • Law. Institutional substitution and legal personhood: an office or sovereign stands for whoever occupies it; corporations act as legal persons; immunity attaches to office, not occupant.

    This sourceLandmark Supreme Court decision affirming the legal personhood of corporations as entities distinct from their members — the institutional-substitution / legal-person fiction by which an office or corporation stands for whoever occupies it.

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