Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward¶
(1819). Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward.
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- 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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The Dartmouth College opinions treat a corporation as an artificial legal person standing for a succession of individuals, but say nothing about sovereign or office substitution or office-based immunity.
“individuality -- properties by which a perpetual succession of many persons are considered as the same, and may act as a single individual.”
- 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.
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