The Law of Joint Stock Companies: Containing the Companies Act, 1862, and the Acts Incorporated Therewith: With Copious Notes of Cases ...Butterworths, 1863 - 568 pages |
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Page 242 - CD the share [or shares] numbered standing in my name in the books of the Company, to hold unto the said CD, his executors, administrators and assigns, subject to the several conditions on which I held the same at the time of the execution hereof; and I the said CD do hereby agree to take the said share [or shares] subject to the same conditions. As witness our hands, the day of (10). The Company may decline to register any transfer of shares made by a member who is indebted to them.
Page 214 - ... on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or...
Page 387 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled, " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders," inclusive of any Acts amending the same.
Page 16 - 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 290 - Shares, or such of them or such Part thereof respectively as he shall .think fit, shall stand charged with the Payment of the Amount for which Judgment shall have been so recovered, and Interest thereon, and such Order shall entitle the Judgment Creditor to all such Remedies as he would have been entitled to if such Charge had been made in his Favour by the Judgment Debtor...
Page 205 - Act destroys, mutilates, alters, or falsifies any books, papers, writings, or securities, or makes or is privy to the making of...
Page 386 - Act being wound up, every present and past member of such company shall be liable to contribute to the assets of the company to an amount sufficient for payment of the debts and liabilities of the company, and the costs, charges, and expenses of the winding up, and for the payment of such sums as may be required for the adjustment of the rights of the contributories amongst themselves...
Page 242 - The instrument of transfer of any share in the company shall be executed both by the transferor and transferee ; and the transferor shall be deemed to remain a holder of such share until the name of the transferee is entered in the register book in respect thereof.
Page 358 - ... 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 268 - The objects for which the company is established are " the " facilitating travelling in the Highlands of Scotland, by providing " hotels and conveyances by sea and by land for the accommodation " of travellers, and the doing all such other things as are incidental " or conducive to the attainment of the above object.