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2246. DISTRIBUTION, Laws of.—

The
bill for establishing a National Bank undertakes
* * * to form the subscribers
into a corporation [and] to enable them, in
their corporate capacities, * * * to transmit
personal chattels to successors in a certain
line; and, so far, is against the laws of Distribution.

National Bank Opinion. Washington ed. vii, 555. Ford ed., v, 285.
(1791)