The Corporation Laws of California: Containing All Provisions of the Constitution, Codes and Statutes of California, Relating to Private Corporations, Together with Annotations and Legislative and Judicial History Thereof. Also an Appendix, Containing the Text of All Laws Continued in Force by Section 288 of the Civil Code

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Bancroft-Whitney, 1904 - 1094 pages

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Contents

FRAUDULENT
38
Term corporations construed
40
State not to loan its credit nor subscribe to stock of cor
46
Foreign corporations conditions
48
20
55
APPENDIX
57
Deduction of value of securities from value of property
65
Right to collect ratesHow exercised
76
Formation of Corporations 283321a
77
301
126
304
135
305
149
306
159
310
165
311
172
Hill 16 Cal 114
176
317
182
Liabilities of stockholders
195
323
206
Spring Valley G Co 106 Cal 551 763
217
Transfer of shares held by married women etc Divi
222
Delinquent noticeForm 235
235
Action for recovery of stock and limitation thereof
241
Amendment of articles or certificate of incorporation 285288
244
Babcock 95 Cal 580
247
355 Limitation of powers
269
Increasing and diminishing capital stock how 276283
276
Corporations may acquire real property and how much
283
Corporations may own their lots and buildings
288
ARTICLE III
294
CHAPTER IV
300
Insurance Corporations 414452
307
Limit of one risk
315
439 What constitutes and deficiency in fixed capital
321
Fraternal societies exempt from insurance laws 329
329
CHAPTER II
336
466
343
points therein Repealed
347
Corporations may consolidatePublication of notice Copy to be filed 348
348
State lands granted for use of corporations
352
Wood stone and earth may be taken from state lands
353
CHAPTER III
354
Annual report to be verifiedForm of report
355
Duties of corporation 356
356
Corporations to pay damages for refusal
357
Corporations to post printed regulations and not respon sible for damages in violation of rules
358
Regulations of trainsPenalty 361
361
Passenger refusing to pay fare 362
362
Officers to wear badge 363
363
Rates of charges 364
364
Passenger tickets how issued and to be good for six months 365367
365
Character of rails to be used
367
To apply to all railroad companies
368
TITLE IV
371
tracks 373375
373
499 Two corporations may use the same track 375377
375
500 Crossing tracksObstructions
377
Time allowed for commencing and completing workPen
378
510
384
Penalties for trespass on property of corporation
391
Bridge Ferry Wharf Chute and Pier Corporations 528
394
TITLE VII
397
Water and Canal Corporations 548552
400
TITLE IX
406
462
462
Subject to provisions relating to bank commissioners 468
468
Colleges and Seminaries of Learning 649651
470
FORNIA RELATING TO CORPORATIONS
477
TITLE VI
484
CHAPTER V
488
CHAPTER V
494
Bakersfield etc Assn v Chester 55 Cal 101 273 274
495
TITLE XIV
500
OF THE VOLUNTARY DISSOLUTION OF CORPORATIONS
505
LEGISLATIVE POWERS Page
509
Hearing of application and remonstrance
511
ARTICLE XVI
516
Proceedings on failure to make up capital
523
610 Statements to be made by insurance companies
531
616
538
Retaliatory clause
544
Location of office
549
TITLE VII
555
Appropriation of damages for highways taken
559
ARTICLE II
565
License tax and rate of tolls how fixed
571
When bridge unites two counties
573
Persons exempt
579
2913
581
2920
587
CHAPTER III
596
3670 Controller to sue for delinquent taxes
616
To grant authority to gas and water companies 619
619
561
628
TITLE XVI
634
When and how served
635
Consolidation of Colleges and Institutions of Higher Educa
652
STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA ENACTED PRIOR TO THE ACT ESTABLISHING A CIVIL CODE APPROVED MARCH
809
Corporations in General 810821
810
Foreign Corporations
821
Railroad Corporations 836860
836
Plank and Turnpike Road Corporations 860867
860
Wagon Road Corporations 867
867
Toll Road Corporations 868871
868
Manufacturing Mining Mercantile Wharfing Trades Business Mechanical and Commercial Corpora tions 871882
871
Chambers of Commerce Boards of Trade and Me chanics Institutes
882
Canal Corporations 889893
889
Mining Corporations 894897
894
Telegraph Corporations 897905
897
Bridge Corporations 906910
906
Religious Benevolent and Learned Associations 910915
910
Odd Fellows Temperance Halls etc 915
915
Orphan Foundling Cemetery and Other Societies 916918
916
Navigation Corporations 918921
918
Rural Cemetery Associations 921925
921
Homestead Associations 926934
926
Savings and Loan Societies 934942
934
Library Associations 943947
943
Cruelty to Animals Association
948
Colleges 954958
954
475 476
961
470
1065
General Index 9611078
1078
Index to Appendix 10791094
1079
604
80
Not to use streets alleys or water in cities or towns
133
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Page 49 - A corporation or association may be sued in the county where the contract is made or is to be performed, or where the obligation or liability arises, or the breach occurs; or in the county where the principal place of business of such corporation is situated, subject to the power of the Court to change the place of trial as in other cases.
Page 44 - The stock and indebtedness of corporations shall not be increased except in pursuance of general law, nor without the consent of the persons holding the larger amount in value of the stock first obtained at a meeting to be held after sixty days' notice given in pursuance of law.
Page 828 - ... for all the debts of the company then existing, and for all that shall be thereafter contracted...
Page 862 - To hold, purchase and convey such real and personal estate, as the purposes of the corporation shall require, not exceeding the amount limited in its charter:
Page 1 - Private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use without just compensation having been first made to, or paid into Court for, the owner, and no right of way shall be appropriated to the use of any corporation other than municipal until full compensation therefor be first made in money or ascertained and paid into Court for the owner...
Page 17 - The Legislature shall have no power to authorize lotteries or gift enterprises for any purpose, and shall pass laws to prohibit the sale in this State of lottery or gift enterprise tickets, or tickets in any scheme in the nature of a lottery.
Page 47 - ... books in which shall be recorded the amount of capital stock subscribed, and by whom; the names of the owners of its stock, and the amounts owned by them respectively; the amount of stock paid in, and by whom; the transfers of said stock: the amount of its assets and liabilities, and the names and place of residence of its officers.
Page 43 - SEC. 9. .No corporation shall engage in any business other than that expressly authorized in its charter, or the law under which it may have been or may hereafter be organized...
Page 656 - Commonwealth, the board shall, upon application as hereinafter provided, and as soon as practicable thereafter, visit the locality of the dispute and make careful inquiry into the cause thereof, hear all persons interested therein who may come before them, advise the respective parties what, if anything, ought to be done or submitted to by either or both to adjust said dispute, and make a written decision thereof.
Page 400 - All corporations formed to supply water to cities or towns must furnish pure fresh water to the inhabitants thereof, for family uses, so long as the supply permits, at reasonable rates and without distinction of persons, upon proper demand therefor; and must furnish water to the extent of their means, in case of fire or other great necessity, free of charge.

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