Legal Definition and Related Resources of Instrumentality

In widest sense, anything used as a means or agency. The quality or state of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; means; medium; agency. Groves v U.S., (C.A.Fla.)533 F.2dl376. In constitutional law, instrumentality is an important concept for the instrumentalities of the federal government are immune from State control . A national Bank, for instance , is an instrumentality of the federal government . See Federal Land Bank of St. Paul v Bismark Lumber Co., 314 U.S. 95, 62 S.Ct.I, 86 L.Ed.65. In corporate law, the instrumentality rule is that when a corporation is so dominated by another corporation that the subservient corporation becomes a mere instrument and is really indistinct from controlling corporation then the corporate veil of dominated corporations will be disregarded and it will be considered as part of the controlling corporation. See National Bond finance Co. v general Motors Corp., (D.C.Mo.) 238 F.Supp. 248.

noun

• channel
• device
• equipment
• expedient
• implement
• instrument
• interagent
• intermediary
• intermediate
• intermedium
• machinery
• manner
• means
• medium
• method
• mode
• operation
• process
• resource
• stratagem
• technic
• technique
• tool
• vehicle
• way
• wherewithal
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