A Treatise on the Law of Partnership and Joint-stock Companies: According to the Law of Scotland, Including Private Copartneries, Common Law Companies, Registered Companies, Chartered Companies, Railway Companies, and Others, Formed Under the Consolidation ActsT.& T. Clark, 1866 |
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Página vii
... importance , would necessitate an acquaintance with English law for which the mere theoretical study of that system is a very inadequate preparation . I have sought to com- pensate for the disadvantages under which , in this respect , I ...
... importance , would necessitate an acquaintance with English law for which the mere theoretical study of that system is a very inadequate preparation . I have sought to com- pensate for the disadvantages under which , in this respect , I ...
Página viii
... importance of railway law has induced me to treat of it in great detail . I have endeavoured to bring under review ... important authorities . Considerable attention has been given to the law of companies formed by royal charter ; and ...
... importance of railway law has induced me to treat of it in great detail . I have endeavoured to bring under review ... important authorities . Considerable attention has been given to the law of companies formed by royal charter ; and ...
Página ix
... important statutory alterations were made on the law , and these I deemed it better to incorporate in the text than to notice in the Appendix . While engaged in collecting materials for the present work , nothing has so much arrested my ...
... important statutory alterations were made on the law , and these I deemed it better to incorporate in the text than to notice in the Appendix . While engaged in collecting materials for the present work , nothing has so much arrested my ...
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... all the references , pointed out several oversights , and made many important suggestions , particu- larly in reference to foreign and international law . In the citation of authorities and decided cases , the X PREFACE .
... all the references , pointed out several oversights , and made many important suggestions , particu- larly in reference to foreign and international law . In the citation of authorities and decided cases , the X PREFACE .
Página xii
... importance may have escaped my notice , that numerous valuable dicta to be found in cases not having an ex facie bearing on partnership law have been overlooked , and that the text itself may be chargeable with misstate- ments of law ...
... importance may have escaped my notice , that numerous valuable dicta to be found in cases not having an ex facie bearing on partnership law have been overlooked , and that the text itself may be chargeable with misstate- ments of law ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Act of Parliament action agency agents amount appear apply appointed articles of association authority Bank Beav Bell's bill bind the company bound calls capital Chancery charter claim common law companies common seal company property company's constitution contract copartners copartnery corporation Court Court of Session creditor declared deed directors dissolution East Lothian effect England English English law entitled Ersk evidence existing firm Glasgow held holder House of Lords implied incorporated incurred individual instrument of formation interest joint-stock companies lands law of Scotland Lindley Macq meeting memorandum of association notice obligations old firm ordinary pany partner partnership relation party payment person prescribed principle privileges profits provisions purchase purposes question regulations Reports resolution Ross royal charter rule Scottish shareholders special act statute statutory sued supra tion transaction transfer trustees ultra vires unincorporated unless Vict
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Página 50 - It is often said that the test, or one of the tests, whether a person not ostensibly a partner, is nevertheless, in contemplation of law, a partner, is, whether he is entitled to participate in the profits. This, no doubt, is, in general, a sufficiently accurate test ; for a right to participate in profits affords cogent, often conclusive evidence, that the trade in which the profits have been made, was carried on in part for or on behalf of the person setting up such a claim.
Página 316 - ... notice in writing to the persons sought to be charged ; and upon such motion such court may order execution to issue accordingly ; and for the purpose of ascertaining the names of the shareholders, and the amount of capital remaining to be paid upon their respective shares, it shall be lawful for any person entitled to any such execution, at all reasonable times, to inspect the register of shareholders without fee.
Página 81 - No company, association, or partnership consisting of more than ten persons shall be formed for the purpose of carrying on the business of banking...
Página 87 - ... 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 98 - Every person who shall have subscribed the prescribed sum or upwards to the capital of the company, or shall otherwise have become entitled to a share in the company, and whose name shall have been entered on the register of shareholders hereinafter mentioned, shall be deemed a shareholder of the company.
Página 565 - 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 316 - If any execution, either at law or in equity, shall have been issued against the property or effects of the company, and if there cannot be found sufficient whereon to levy such execution, then such execution may be issued against any of the shareholders to the extent of their shares respectively in the capital of the company not then paid up...
Página xvii - An Act for consolidating in one Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the taking of Lands for Undertakings of a Public Nature ;' and ' An Act for consolidating in one Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the making of Railways.
Página 189 - Where a partnership is dissolved (even where it can be in a sense dissolved the instant after notice to dissolve is given, if there be no contract, to the contrary), it must still continue for the purpose of winding up its affairs, of taking and settling all its accounts, and converting all the property, means, and assets of the partnership, existing at the time of the dissolution, as beneficially as may be, for the benefit of all who were partners, according to their respective shares and interests;...
Página 320 - No past member shall be liable to contribute in respect of any debt or liability of the company contracted after the time at which he ceased to be a member.