Public Companies from the Cradle to the Grave, Or, How Promoters Prey on the People1883 - 104 páginas |
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Página 16
... considered necessary to mention whether he be a naval or military officer , or whether the title has been assumed by reason of his serving with the home forces , or with those of foreign potentates , -enough , if he be pos- sessed of ...
... considered necessary to mention whether he be a naval or military officer , or whether the title has been assumed by reason of his serving with the home forces , or with those of foreign potentates , -enough , if he be pos- sessed of ...
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... considered by the board to be a frivolous freak and hardship imposed by the Act for the purpose of troubling directors , and not , as it is meant to be taken , a safeguard to shareholders . The chairman's speech on the occasion , given ...
... considered by the board to be a frivolous freak and hardship imposed by the Act for the purpose of troubling directors , and not , as it is meant to be taken , a safeguard to shareholders . The chairman's speech on the occasion , given ...
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... considered responsible for the fatalities attaching to the forsaken ship . It need hardly be added that the dividends from the " going concern " are not yet in sight , although two years have now elapsed . " 6 " " Take another instance ...
... considered responsible for the fatalities attaching to the forsaken ship . It need hardly be added that the dividends from the " going concern " are not yet in sight , although two years have now elapsed . " 6 " " Take another instance ...
Página 42
... considered merely a farce . But , although this resolution was thus carried , a storm arose ; the " Coffee Substitute craze began to be seen through , and the payment of the £ 50,000 was , on petition , stopped by the Court of Chancery ...
... considered merely a farce . But , although this resolution was thus carried , a storm arose ; the " Coffee Substitute craze began to be seen through , and the payment of the £ 50,000 was , on petition , stopped by the Court of Chancery ...
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... profitable , but that happy outcome remains to be seen , and the " immediate results " can approximately be guessed at when it is considered that the Nouveau Monde , a French Société Anonyme , started 44 Public Companies .
... profitable , but that happy outcome remains to be seen , and the " immediate results " can approximately be guessed at when it is considered that the Nouveau Monde , a French Société Anonyme , started 44 Public Companies .
Términos y frases comunes
Acts of Parliament advertising allotment amount applied Arc Lamp British Brush Company Brush Electric Light Brush offshoot Callao cash and shares cent CHAPTER Colonial Companies Acts companies registered company's concern Confidence trick considered cost Crown 8vo directors district dividends dynamo-machines Edison Elec Electric Light Company Electric Sun endeavour favour formed funds gold guarantee Gulcher Hammond Indian Interested in sales investment investors Jablochkoff joint-stock banks joint-stock companies Joint-Stock Enterprise Lamp Lane-Fox Light & Power Light and Power limited liability limited liability companies liquidators London Maxim-Weston memorandum of association ment MYSORE DISTRICT names paid paid-up capital panies patents Pilsen-Joel post-free POWER COMPANY premium profits promoters prospectus proxies public companies purchase railway reefs schemes shareholders spectus Stock Exchange Storage subscribe success supply syndicate taken tion trading undertakings vendors ventures Western Electric winding WORD-PAINTING WYMAN & SONS Wynaad
Pasajes populares
Página 37 - The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Página 6 - ... shall be deemed to be a company having a permanent paid-up, or nominal capital of fixed amount, divided into shares, also of fixed amount, or held and transferable as stock, or divided and held, partly in one way and partly in the other, and formed on the principle of having for its members the holders of shares in such capital, or the holders of such stock, and no other persons...
Página 22 - Whenever the Court is of opinion that it is just and equitable that the Company should be wound up.
Página 40 - Is. per Ib., the directors feel justified in stating they confidently believe the profits of this company will be more than sufficient to pay dividends of at least 50 per cent, on the nominal capital, and will exceed those of the company working the English patent, which, having only been formed a little over twelve months, has entered into a contract which will yield the return, by way of annual dividends, of a sum equal to the whole paid-up capital of the company of £34,000.
Página 101 - WE, the several persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a company, in pursuance of this memorandum of association, and we respectively agree to take the number of shares in the capital of the company set opposite our respective names.