The Law and Practice of Joint-stock and Other Public Companies: Including the Statutes, with Notes : a Collection of Precedents of Memoranda and Articles of Association, and All the Other Forms Required in Making, Administering, and Winding Up a CompanyStevens & Sons, 1875 - 847 pages |
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... reason of the dealing of the agent ; for the safety of mankind requires that no agent shall be able to put his principal to the danger of such an inquiry as that . " See also Ottoman Bank v . Farley , 17 W. R. 761 . 124. note ( c ) ...
... reason of the dealing of the agent ; for the safety of mankind requires that no agent shall be able to put his principal to the danger of such an inquiry as that . " See also Ottoman Bank v . Farley , 17 W. R. 761 . 124. note ( c ) ...
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... reason only of their receiving a portion of profits be deemed in law to be partners . Here , again , the inference is irresistible that the Legislature considered that , at common law , agents and servants remunerated by , and ...
... reason only of their receiving a portion of profits be deemed in law to be partners . Here , again , the inference is irresistible that the Legislature considered that , at common law , agents and servants remunerated by , and ...
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... reason of his misconduct . Recurring to the foregoing example , Robert Brown of contribu- partners . having borrowed 10,000l . , which 8 HISTORY OF LEGISLATION . Rule of Unlimited Liability extends to Joint Stock Com- panies ...
... reason of his misconduct . Recurring to the foregoing example , Robert Brown of contribu- partners . having borrowed 10,000l . , which 8 HISTORY OF LEGISLATION . Rule of Unlimited Liability extends to Joint Stock Com- panies ...
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... reason in fact why the whole three hundred shareholders might not answer separately . The result was , that it became impossible to proceed with a suit in which the plain- tiff , as a preliminary measure , might have had to pay for ...
... reason in fact why the whole three hundred shareholders might not answer separately . The result was , that it became impossible to proceed with a suit in which the plain- tiff , as a preliminary measure , might have had to pay for ...
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... reasons stated in that resolution do not apply to the Act of 1862. It abrogates the Act of 1844 alto- gether , and there seems no ground for dealing with insurance companies in a manner differing in principle from that in which the ...
... reasons stated in that resolution do not apply to the Act of 1862. It abrogates the Act of 1844 alto- gether , and there seems no ground for dealing with insurance companies in a manner differing in principle from that in which the ...
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Page 146 - Every member of the Association undertakes to contribute to the assets of the Association, in the event of the same being wound up during the time that he is a member...
Page 496 - Any Contract which if made between private persons would be by Law required to be in Writing, and signed by the Parties to be charged therewith, may be made on behalf of the Company in Writing signed by any Person acting under the express or implied Authority of the Company...
Page 463 - WE, the several persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a company, in pursuance of this memorandum of association, and we respectively agree to take the number of shares in the capital of the company set opposite our respective names.
Page 714 - An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to Substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits; and to make other Provisions for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths.
Page 380 - If any director, officer, or contributory of any company wound up flcatlon of booka. unc|er this act destroys, mutilates, alters, or falsifies any books, papers, writings, or securities, or makes or is privy to the making of...
Page 201 - Things ; (that is to say,) (1) The Name of the proposed Company, with the Addition of the Word »Limited...
Page 261 - The amount of the capital of the company, and the number of shares into which it is divided.
Page 675 - The chairman may, with the consent of the meeting, adjourn any meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.
Page 605 - The directors may elect a chairman of their meetings and determine the period for which he is to hold office ; but if...
Page 682 - The auditors shall make a report to the shareholders upon the balance sheet and accounts, and in every such report they shall state whether, in their opinion, the balance sheet is a full and fair balance sheet, containing...