Public Companies from the Cradle to the Grave, Or, How Promoters Prey on the People |
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Growth of Joint - Stock Enterprise - Scope of subject - Suitability of the System for trading purposes , Arguments for and against its adaptation Private Companies — Conversion of Shipping and other Firms into Companies — History and ...
Growth of Joint - Stock Enterprise - Scope of subject - Suitability of the System for trading purposes , Arguments for and against its adaptation Private Companies — Conversion of Shipping and other Firms into Companies — History and ...
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Freedom of Trading desirable , but should not degenerate into Licence – 1. Haphazard Registration condemned — II . Legal quibble of subscribers taking only one share denounced — III . Money Guarantees should be deposited by Directors ...
Freedom of Trading desirable , but should not degenerate into Licence – 1. Haphazard Registration condemned — II . Legal quibble of subscribers taking only one share denounced — III . Money Guarantees should be deposited by Directors ...
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A review of the different kinds of companies started with more or less definite objects , and an examination of some of the leading branches of trade which the joint - stock system more readily lends itself to , will enable us to learn ...
A review of the different kinds of companies started with more or less definite objects , and an examination of some of the leading branches of trade which the joint - stock system more readily lends itself to , will enable us to learn ...
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Then there is the advantage of personal superintendence ; -men will work harder and spare no pains when their own interests are at stake , and so their trading is likely ...
Then there is the advantage of personal superintendence ; -men will work harder and spare no pains when their own interests are at stake , and so their trading is likely ...
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The earliest of these , -chiefly banks and mercantile trading corporations , —were incorporated by special Acts of ... the usual functions of Government over the districts in which they traded , and had their own ships and armies .
The earliest of these , -chiefly banks and mercantile trading corporations , —were incorporated by special Acts of ... the usual functions of Government over the districts in which they traded , and had their own ships and armies .
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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.