REPORTS OF CASES UNDER THE COMPANIES ACTS DECIDED IN THE High Court of Justice, The Court of Appeal, and The House of Lords. Gl Brit, Courts REPORTS OF CASES UNDER THE COMPANIES ACTS, DECIDED IN THE High Court of Justice, The Court of Appeal, REPORTED BY WILLIAM BERNARD MEGONE, Of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. VOL. I. With Complete Digest and Index. STANFORD LIBRARY LONDON: SWEET & MAXWELL, LIMITED, 3, CHANCERY LANE, Law Publishers. 1890. PREFACE. THE conclusion of the First Volume of these Reports, which have been appearing at intervals during the last year and a half, seems a fitting opportunity for a statement of the objects of the publication. The immense development in recent years of joint-stock enterprise has created various interests, and to many persons connected with them a knowledge of the daily interpretation by the Courts of the Acts under which a very large portion of that enterprise has its being, is of vital importance. These reports will, it is hoped, be found to supply in a handy form a complete collection of all the decisions of importance given since the reports began, in the High Court of Justice, the Court of Appeal, and the House of Lords, in cases arising under the Companies Acts. Every endeavour has been made to ensure that the reports shall be absolutely accurate, and shall appear at the earliest possible moment which the nature of the publication will allow. The editor has gratefully to acknowledge that such success as may have attended his efforts in these particulars is very greatly due to the courtesy and assistance extended to him by the members of the legal profession engaged in the cases. The |