Lillis v. Carty

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that Clause precluded legislature from changing college charter granted prior to independence
• noting that a corporation does not become “a part of the civil government 7 According to Random House Webster’s College Dictionary (2d rev. ed. 2000
• noting that a corporation does not become “a part of the civil government 7 According to Random House Webster’s College Dictionary (2d rev. ed. 2000
• noting that a corporation does not become “a part of the civil government 7 According to Random House Webster’s College Dictionary (2d rev. ed. 2000
• explaining that the trustees were acting as assignees of the donors and founders, but also in their own interests as potential professors or leaders of the college
• “Being the mere crea- ture of law, [a corporation] possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either ex- pressly, or as incidental to its very existence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).