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LMER'S COMPANY PRECEDENTS.

ONVEYANCING AND OTHER FORMS AND PRECEDENTS RELATING TO COMPANIES INCORPORATED UNDER THE COMPANIES' ACTS, 1862 AND 1867.

BY FRANCIS BEAUFORT PALMER,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

The above Work is designed for the use not only of the legal profession, but also of Secretaries, Directors, and Managers of Companies.

In carrying on the business of a Company, questions of law and practice are of constant occurrence, e.g., as to the meaning of the articles of association and as to the rights and duties of the directors and others under the same; as to transfer and forfeiture of shares; as to increase and reduction of capital; as to preference shares; borrowing; general meetings; proxies; polls; power of directors; dividends; form of contracts; effect of resolutions, &c., &c. The answers to such questions will, in most cases, be found in the pages of this work. Again, where it is proposed to issue debentures or preference shares, or to reconstruct, with a view to extending the objects of the Company, returning capital, creating preference shares, &c.; or to amalgamate, &c., it is important to know what course other Companies have adopted in similar circumstances and to see the forms used by them. Such knowledge, in many cases, affords suggestions, the result of practical experience, which are of great value. The pages of this work contain many such records and forms.

Among other things the work contains:-Forms of articles of association of various kinds. These articles include all the ordinary and many special clauses, and to each clause is subjoined a note explaining its effect, and referring to the statutes and legal decisions: carefully settled forms of notices of calls; of forfeiture of shares; of ordinary meetings; of meetings to pass special resolutions, and for other purposes; for delivering to the registrar of joint stock companies; in contemplation of reconstruction, amalgamation, and winding-up, &c., &c. Precedents of resolutions for the alteration of articles of association; for increase of capital; for the creation of preference shares of all kinds; for reduction of capital by division of assets and otherwise; for redemption of debentures; as to the issue of share warrants, &c., &c.; forms of agreements for the purchase of property by companies; for the appointment of managers, secretaries, and other officers; for the exchange of debentures for preference/

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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"It may be considered a perfect vade mecum to the man of business of the present period as indispensable as it is valuable from the evident painstaking and scrupulous care and ability displayed by Mr. Palmer in the compilation and arrangement of the subjects treated."-The Railway Record, May 5, 1877.

"To those concerned in getting up Companies, the assistance given by Mr. Palmer must be very valuable, because he does not confine himself to bare precedents, but by intelligent and learned commentary lights up, as it were, each step that he takes. The volume before us is not therefore a book of precedents merely, but, in a greater or less degree, a treatise on certain portions of the Companies Acts, 1862 and 1867. There is an elaborate index, and the work is one which must commend itself to the Profession."-Law Times, June 9, 1877.

"The precedents are, as a rule, exceedingly well drafted. All the notes have been elaborated with a thoroughly scientific knowledge of the principles of Company Law, as well as with copious references to the cases substantiating the principles. Many authors, from indolence it may be, or perhaps incapacity, fall into the failing of making their books so elementary as to be of little or no service to Counsel. Mr. Palmer has steered very wide of such a fault as this. We venture to predict that his notes will be found of great utility in guiding opinions on many complicated questions of Law and Practice. The introductory notes on Debentures are particularly well worked up "-Law Journal, June 23, 1877.

"These notes show much care and industry, and contain information which it is particularly useful to have collected The precedents we have The forms of

On the whole, we think

gone through are generally speaking clear and practical . articles are also concise and well arranged. that the work is a valuable addition to the conveyancer's library."-Solicitors' Journal, October 27, 1877.

"Notwithstanding the treatises, which have already appeared on the subject, there had never to our knowledge, been any attempt to collect and edit a body of forms and precedents exclusively relating to the formation, working, and winding up of Companies. This task Mr. Palmer has taken in hand, and, we are glad to say, with much success. Not only the draftsmen, but Secretaries, Managing Directors, and other Officials will find in this Volume varied precedents and forms which cannot fail to be of the greatest service to them The author has evidently not been sparing of labour, and the fruits of his exertions are now before the legal profession in a work of great practical utility."--Law Magazine, February, 1878.

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ALMER'S COMPANY PRECEDENTS.

CONVEYANCING AND OTHER FORMS AND PRECEDENTS RELATING TO COMPANIES INCORPORATED UNDER THE COMPANIES' ACTS, 1862 AND 1867.

BY FRANCIS BEAUFORT PALMER,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

The above Work is designed for the use not only of the legal profession, but also of Secretaries, Directors, and Managers of Companies.

In carrying on the business of a Company, questions of law and practice are of constant occurrence, e.g., as to the meaning of the articles of association and as to the rights and duties of the directors and others under the same; as to transfer and forfeiture of shares; as to increase and reduction of capital; as to preference shares; borrowing; general meetings; proxies; polls; power of directors; dividends; form of contracts; effect of resolutions, &c., &c. The answers to such questions will, in most cases, be found in the pages of this work. Again, where it is proposed to issue debentures or preference shares, or to reconstruct, with a view to extending the objects of the Company, returning capital, creating preference shares, &c.; or to amalgamate, &c., it is important to know what course other Companies have adopted in similar circumstances and to see the forms used by them. Such knowledge, in many cases, affords suggestions, the result of practical experience, which are of great value. The pages of this work contain many such records and forms.

Among other things the work contains:-Forms of articles of association of various kinds. These articles include all the ordinary and many special clauses, and to each clause is subjoined a note explaining its effect, and referring to the statutes and legal decisions: carefully settled forms of notices of calls; of forfeiture of shares; of ordinary meetings; of meetings to pass special resolutions, and for other purposes; for delivering to the registrar of joint stock companies; in contemplation of reconstruction, amalgamation, and winding-up, &c., &c. Precedents of resolutions for the alteration of articles of association; for increase of capital; for the creation of preference shares of all kinds; for reduction of capital by division of assets and otherwise; for redemption of debentures; as to the issue of share warrants, &c., &c.; forms of agreements for the purchase of property by companies; for the appointment of managers, secretaries, and other officers; for the exchange of debentures for preference shares or p

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