National Literary Ass'n
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was an application for a charter of incorporation, under the provisions of the Act of 6th April 1791: Brightly’s JPurd. 164.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lowrie, C. J.
— When people associate together, it is always for a purpose more or less clearly formed in their minds, and which therefore they can, with reasonable distinctness, declare and define to others. If they desire to be incorporated, the law makes it essential that they shall “specify the objects” for which they have associated; and before this court can consent to approve of their incorporation, we must have their objects so far defined that we can feel assured that they are such as can fairly be presumed to fall within the meaning of the law…