Commercial Law: An Elementary Text-book for Commercial ClassesMacmillan, 1893 - 191 pages |
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... actions , to give receipts , to refer disputes to arbitra- tion , to invest moneys , to form a reserve fund , and to recommend the amount of the dividend . § 11. Shares . - The capital of a company is always , as we have seen , divided ...
... actions , to give receipts , to refer disputes to arbitra- tion , to invest moneys , to form a reserve fund , and to recommend the amount of the dividend . § 11. Shares . - The capital of a company is always , as we have seen , divided ...
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... action . A bale of cotton is a material thing , but a share in a company is really a right of action . Land or immoveable property is often required for trading purposes , and attention may therefore be directed to some of the more ...
... action . A bale of cotton is a material thing , but a share in a company is really a right of action . Land or immoveable property is often required for trading purposes , and attention may therefore be directed to some of the more ...
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... Action . — Moveable property is usually divided into material things and rights of action . former class includes everything that is tangible or possesses a material form ; the latter class includes all claims or rights , especially ...
... Action . — Moveable property is usually divided into material things and rights of action . former class includes everything that is tangible or possesses a material form ; the latter class includes all claims or rights , especially ...
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... action cannot be maintained for the infringement of copyright unless the copyright has been registered . § 22. Designs . - Any new or original design applicable to any article of manufacture or to any substance , whether it relate to ...
... action cannot be maintained for the infringement of copyright unless the copyright has been registered . § 22. Designs . - Any new or original design applicable to any article of manufacture or to any substance , whether it relate to ...
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... action can be brought against a person upon any promise made after he attains his majority , to pay any debt contracted during infancy , or upon any ratification made after full age of any promise or contract made during infancy ...
... action can be brought against a person upon any promise made after he attains his majority , to pay any debt contracted during infancy , or upon any ratification made after full age of any promise or contract made during infancy ...
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Commercial Law: An Elementary Text-Book for Commercial Classes Joseph Edwin Crawford Munro No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 72 - By the seventeenth section, it is enacted that " no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of £10 sterling, or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same...
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Page 134 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
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