Joint Stock Companies: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Formation, Management and Winding-up Under "The Companies Act, 1862", Comprising Introductory Sketch and Statistics, Copious Instructions to Promoters, Directors, Officers and All Persons Officially Or Otherwise Connected with Public Companies, Containing Also a List of the Books Required by a Public Company, and Hints as to Forms and Mode of Keeping Same : Together with Abstracts from Table B Fromthe Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856, of the Fraudulent Trustee Act, of the Railway Companies Arbitration Act, 1859, and of the Companies Seals Acts, 1864Farries, 1865 - 176 páginas |
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... share of the advertising columns - we rush out of the house and in a moment are ensconced in a company's omnibus— we dabble all day and transact a great part of our business with the aid of directors and common seals- we dine at a ...
... share of the advertising columns - we rush out of the house and in a moment are ensconced in a company's omnibus— we dabble all day and transact a great part of our business with the aid of directors and common seals- we dine at a ...
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... shares have been taken up , but it remains to be seen to what extent it will be made available . Only two companies had called up the total amount of their capital ; and as an illustration of how little the nominal capital has to do ...
... shares have been taken up , but it remains to be seen to what extent it will be made available . Only two companies had called up the total amount of their capital ; and as an illustration of how little the nominal capital has to do ...
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... shares were taken up as would warrant the company in commencing business . Promoters might also register their names and addresses , as some slight protection for creditors , and in fact the principle might be extended from time to time ...
... shares were taken up as would warrant the company in commencing business . Promoters might also register their names and addresses , as some slight protection for creditors , and in fact the principle might be extended from time to time ...
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... share- holders a means of referring back to see if a new specu- lation had appeared in any other form before , and how far it had gained public favor . In throwing out these humble suggestions the Author trusts that he will be acquitted ...
... share- holders a means of referring back to see if a new specu- lation had appeared in any other form before , and how far it had gained public favor . In throwing out these humble suggestions the Author trusts that he will be acquitted ...
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... shares , or 3 . A Company limited by guarantee . * That is , where these companies require special powers , such as to take land , or to open up highways , & c . , for the purpose of laying down pipes . B 5 . The first of these forms is ...
... shares , or 3 . A Company limited by guarantee . * That is , where these companies require special powers , such as to take land , or to open up highways , & c . , for the purpose of laying down pipes . B 5 . The first of these forms is ...
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Act of Parliament adjourned amount application appointed Articles of Association assets auditors balance sheet Board of Trade books and documents capital divided certificate chairman commencement common seal companies formed company limited company registered company's contributory copy Court of Chancery creditors debts deemed default directors divided into shares dividend entitled exceeding EXISTING COMPANIES fraudulent holders incorporation inspect Joint Stock Companies latter legal proceedings Letters Patent limited by guarantee limited by shares limited company limited liability Memorandum of Association ment notice number of shares official liquidator ordinary meeting paid pany payable payment penalty person provisions proxy public company purpose pursuance register of members registered office Registrar regulations requisition sanction Scotland shareholder special resolution Stannaries Stock Companies Acts thereto think fit tion transfer unregistered company Vice-Warden voluntary winding-up vote winding-up a company winding-up the company wound
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Página 127 - ... if no such chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the directors present shall choose some one of their number to be chairman of such meeting.
Página 137 - ... of the company, shall be sufficient evidence of the fact, without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against such resolution.
Página 139 - The notice may also be served by post by a registered letter addressed to the person on whom it is to be served at his last known place of residence or place of business; and, if served by post shall be deemed to have been served at the time when a letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post...
Página 140 - 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.
Página 127 - The directors may delegate any of their powers to committees consisting of such member or members of their body as they think fit. Any committee so formed shall in the exercise of the powers so delegated conform to any regulations that may be imposed on it by the directors.
Página 121 - ... and for other purposes as would have been conferred by shares of equal amount in the capital of the company; but so that none of such privileges or advantages except the participation in the dividends and profits of the company shall be conferred by any such aliquot part of consolidated stock as would not if existing in shares have conferred such privileges or advantages.
Página 139 - Any notice, if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of the post...
Página 137 - 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.
Página 143 - shall mean the lords of the committee of privy council appointed for the consideration of matters relating to trade and foreign plantations...
Página 121 - The instrument of transfer shall be presented to the company, accompanied with such evidence as the directors may require to prove the title of the transferor, and thereupon the company shall register the transferee as a member.