576 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

such union; a certificate of such union or consolidation and the pro-
visions thereof shall be executed by the said corporations and be
acknowledged and recorded as other certificates of incorporation are in
this article directed to be acknowledged and recorded, and thereupon
all the property and assets belonging to said former separate corpora-
tions and all their powers and rights and all the debts and liabilities of
said former separate corporations shall be devolved upon said new con-
solidated corporation, and every devise or bequest in favor of either
of the former separate corporations which it would have been capable
of taking shall devolve upon said new consolidated corporations, which
shall be regarded as substituted by operation of law in the place and
stead of said former separate corporations.

As to the consolidation of other corporations, see sec. 29, et seg.

See sec. 98.

Foreign Corporations.

1908, ch. 240, sec. 65.

90. The term, foreign corporation, as used in this article, shall mean
every corporation, association or organization, other than a national
bank, which has been established, organized or chartered' under laws
other than those of this State.

As to foreign Insurance companies, see sections 159, et seq., and 181, et
seq., and sec. 207.

As to proof of the Incorporation of a foreign corporation, see art. 35, sec. 43.

1908, ch. 240, sec. 66.

91. No foreign corporation shall engage or continue in any kind
of business in this State, the transaction of which by domestic corpora-
tions is not permitted by the laws thereof. And every foreign corpora-
tion doing business in this State shall be deemed thereby to have
assented to all the provisions of the laws thereof.

This section Incorporates the limitations upon the principle of comity
between the states relative to the powers and privileges of foreign corpora-
tions. A foreign corporation without a grant from the State or the city of
Baltimore of the right to conduct Its business within the city is not entitled
to place or maintain poles, wires or cables in public streets or highways.
Patapsco Co. v. Baltimore, 110 Md. 310. And see Hannis Distilling Co.
v. Baltimore, 114 Md. 684.

This section referred to in construing article 81, section 218, et seq. (see
notes thereto). Hannis Distilling Co. v. Baltimore, 114 Md. 678.
See sec. 412.

1904, art. 23, sees. 411 and 412. 1888, art. 23, secs. 297 and 298. 1868, ch. 417,
secs. 211 and 212. 1908, ch. 240, sec. 67.

92. Any person or corporation, whether a resident or a non-resi-
dent of this State, may sue any foreign corporation regularly doing
business or regularly exercising any of its franchises herein for any
cause of action. Such suit may be brought in any county or in the
city of Baltimore, as the case may be, where its principal office in this
State, named in the certificate provided for by the next succeeding sec-
tion of this article, is located or where it regularly transacts business