A Treatise on the Law of Partnership and Joint-stock Companies: According to the Law of Scotland, Including Private Copartneries, Common Law Companies, Registered Companies, Chartered Companies, Railway Companies, and Others, Formed Under the Consolidation ActsT.& T. Clark, 1866 |
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... Capital of Companies , and its Division into Shares , SEC . 1. Shares in Partnerships , 132 135 Shares in Companies , Consolidated Stock , SEC . 2. Transfer of Shares , SEC . 3. Retirement and Surrender of Shares , SEC . 4. Expulsion of ...
... Capital of Companies , and its Division into Shares , SEC . 1. Shares in Partnerships , 132 135 Shares in Companies , Consolidated Stock , SEC . 2. Transfer of Shares , SEC . 3. Retirement and Surrender of Shares , SEC . 4. Expulsion of ...
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... capital was required for such undertakings , and this could only be raised by means of associations containing a great number of shareholders . The management of these associations had , in consequence of their very size , to be ...
... capital was required for such undertakings , and this could only be raised by means of associations containing a great number of shareholders . The management of these associations had , in consequence of their very size , to be ...
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... capital of the concern , and also a community of right to share in the management . Cases , however ( as we shall afterwards see ) , are of continual occurrence , in which all of those elements are not found in combination ; but yet in ...
... capital of the concern , and also a community of right to share in the management . Cases , however ( as we shall afterwards see ) , are of continual occurrence , in which all of those elements are not found in combination ; but yet in ...
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... capital , and shall not have the power of binding the firm ; yet independently of the fact that such a stipulation would not avail with the public unless they had due notice , it is still obvious that the remaining partners continue to ...
... capital , and shall not have the power of binding the firm ; yet independently of the fact that such a stipulation would not avail with the public unless they had due notice , it is still obvious that the remaining partners continue to ...
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... capital had been subscribed , the subscribers will not be held bound as partners if the company start before obtaining subscriptions to the stipulated amount ( b ) . Nor will it make any difference that the subscribers had paid deposits ...
... capital had been subscribed , the subscribers will not be held bound as partners if the company start before obtaining subscriptions to the stipulated amount ( b ) . Nor will it make any difference that the subscribers had paid deposits ...
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Page 50 - It is often said that the test, or one of the tests, whether a person not ostensibly a partner, is nevertheless, in contemplation of law, a partner, is, whether he is entitled to participate in the profits. This, no doubt, is, in general, a sufficiently accurate test ; for a right to participate in profits affords cogent, often conclusive evidence, that the trade in which the profits have been made, was carried on in part for or on behalf of the person setting up such a claim.
Page 316 - ... notice in writing to the persons sought to be charged ; and upon such motion such court may order execution to issue accordingly ; and for the purpose of ascertaining the names of the shareholders, and the amount of capital remaining to be paid upon their respective shares, it shall be lawful for any person entitled to any such execution, at all reasonable times, to inspect the register of shareholders without fee.
Page 81 - No company, association, or partnership consisting of more than ten persons shall be formed for the purpose of carrying on the business of banking...
Page 87 - ... shall be deemed to be a company having a permanent paid-up or nominal capital of fixed amount, divided into shares, also of fixed amount, or held and transferable as stock, or divided and held partly in one way and partly in the other, and formed on the principle of having for its members the holders of shares in such capital, or the holders of such stock, and no other persons...
Page 98 - Every person who shall have subscribed the prescribed sum or upwards to the capital of the company, or shall otherwise have become entitled to a share in the company, and whose name shall have been entered on the register of shareholders hereinafter mentioned, shall be deemed a shareholder of the company.
Page 565 - Any notice, if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of the post...
Page 316 - If any execution, either at law or in equity, shall have been issued against the property or effects of the company, and if there cannot be found sufficient whereon to levy such execution, then such execution may be issued against any of the shareholders to the extent of their shares respectively in the capital of the company not then paid up...
Page xvii - An Act for consolidating in one Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the taking of Lands for Undertakings of a Public Nature ;' and ' An Act for consolidating in one Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the making of Railways.
Page 189 - Where a partnership is dissolved (even where it can be in a sense dissolved the instant after notice to dissolve is given, if there be no contract, to the contrary), it must still continue for the purpose of winding up its affairs, of taking and settling all its accounts, and converting all the property, means, and assets of the partnership, existing at the time of the dissolution, as beneficially as may be, for the benefit of all who were partners, according to their respective shares and interests;...
Page 320 - No past member shall be liable to contribute in respect of any debt or liability of the company contracted after the time at which he ceased to be a member.