This legislation Of Europe was directed to check the wealth and influence Of juridical persons who had existed for centuries there, some of whom had outlived the necessities which had led to their organization and endowment. Political reasons entered largely into the motives for this legislation, reasons which never ex tended their influence to this continent, and consequently it has not been introduced into our system Of jurisprudence.

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