THE CORPORATE ENTITY AS A SOLVENT OF LEGAL PROBLEMS
Latty, Elvin R.
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Abstract
If a layman were to ask a lawyer what is the reason that a stockholder is ordinarily not liable for his corporation's debts or that a deed to corporate property by the sole stockholder in his own name is not a flawless conveyance, the answer the layman would get would be: a corporation is a wholly different person from its stockholders-it is an entity separate and distinct from them. That answer reveals the traditional approach to scores of problems in corporation law, an approach which, it is submitted, can lead the incautious into considerable trouble.