The Shareholders' and Directors' Manual: A Practical Handbook of the Law of the Dominion of Canada and the Provinces Thereof, Relating to Joint Stock Companies

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Canada Railway News Company, 1907 - 619 páginas
 

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Página 259 - to be the advantage or benefit which is acquired by an establishment beyond the mere value of the capital, stock, funds, or property employed therein, in consequence of the general public patronage and encouragement which it receives from constant or habitual customers, on account of its local position, or common celebrity, or reputation for skill or affluence, or punctuality, or from other accidental circumstances, or necessities, or even from ancient partialities or prejudices.
Página 288 - The objects for which the company is established are, "the conveyance of passengers and goods in ships or boats between such places as the company may from time to time determine, and the doing all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above object.
Página 343 - The amount of the capital of the company, and the number of shares into which it is divided...
Página 386 - If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of members, shall be dissolved; in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the same time and place, and if at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting, the members present shall be a quorum.
Página 278 - ... and conditions thereof, the mode of carrying the same into effect, the name of the new corporation, the number...
Página 387 - The directors may elect a chairman of their meetings and determine the period for which he is to hold office ; but if no such chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the chairman is not present within five minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, the directors present may choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.
Página 287 - To sell or -dispose of the undertaking of the company or any part thereof for such consideration as the company may think fit, and in particular for shares, debentures or securities of any other company having objects altogether or in part similar to those of the company...
Página 301 - ... evidence of the fact, without proof of the number or proportion of the votes...
Página 308 - Each shareholder, until the whole amount of his stock has been paid up, shall be individually liable to the creditors of the company to an amount equal to that not paid up thereon, but shall not be liable to an action therefor by any creditor before an execution against the company has been returned unsatisfied in whole or in part, and the amount due on such execution shall, subject to the provisions of the next succeeding section, be the amount recoverable, with costs, against such shareholders...
Página 522 - For value received hereby sell, assign and transfer unto shares of the *capital stock represented by the within certificate and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint attorney to transfer the said stock on the books of the within named company with full power of substitution in the premises.

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