Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations

Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations PDF

Author: HardPress

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 774

ISBN-13: 9781314478884

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Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations, Vol. 1 of 6 (Classic Reprint)

Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations, Vol. 1 of 6 (Classic Reprint) PDF

Author: Seymour D. Thompson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-29

Total Pages: 1074

ISBN-13: 9781528336420

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Excerpt from Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations, Vol. 1 of 6 This is an attempt to state the law relating to corpo rations existing in the United States, except those created for governmental purposes. As will be seen by the analysis of the Whole work which immediately follows this preface, it is divided into nineteen separate titles. So great is the extent and variety of the questions under consider ation that it has been found necessary to distribute the matter in these titles into no less than two hundred and one chapters. Many of these chapters are so large that it has been necessary to subdivide them into sub chapters, called articles. For example, one of these chap ters contains fifteen, another twelve, others seven, and still others lesser numbers of these articles; so that many of the so-called chapters are really extensive titles. In many cases it has been found necessary, for the convenient and accurate grouping of subjects, to subdivide these articles into sub-articles, called subdivisions. The Whole work is again divided into about eight thousand separate para graphs, called sections. These sections form the units of grouping, of reference, and of indexing. The whole work is comprised in six volumes, of about eleven hundred pages each. The author finds his justification for the publication of so large a work upon a single title of the law, in the vast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations

Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations PDF

Author: Seymour Dwight Thompson

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9781230189413

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...and organization of the corporation must be proved by direct evidence, and that the judgment obtained by the plaintiff against the company is not conclusive evidence of the existence and organization of the company as a corporation in such an action4 In like manner, in Pennsylvania, in an action at law against several parties alleged to have been directors and officers of a chartered bank, to recover upon bills issued by them which had become worthless, it is incumbent upon the plaintiff to prove the charter, --which in this instance consisted of letters patent signed by the Governor, --where, under the act of incorporation, a charter was necessary to create the bank a body corporate.8 In Massachusetts, in an action against an alleged manufacturing corporation, seeking also to charge the stockholders who are summoned in the suit in pursuance to a statute, ' it is incumbent on the plaintiff to prove the existence of the corporation in order to 1 Yeager v. Scranton Trust Co. Central Agricultural Ac. Asao. v. (Pa.); 14 Week. Not. Cas. 296; Citi-Alabama Gold Life Ins. Co., tupra. zens' &c. Bank v. Gillespie, 115 Pa. St. 4 Hudson v. Carman, 41 Me. 84. 564, 572; $. c. 9 Atl. Rep. 73. Gardner v. Post, 43 Pa. St. 19 Citizens' &c. Bank v. Gillespie, Mass. Stat. 1851, ch. 315. 115 Pa. St. 564; i.e. 9 Atl. Bep. 73. charge the stockholders, although the corporation has suffered a judgment by default.1 The governing principle is, that the stockholder has a right to a hearing or adjudication of the question whether he is a member of such a corporation as that in which he is impleaded, and as such liable for its debts. "It is obvious that the trial of the issue which is thus opened to an alleged stockholder necessarily involves the question of...