The Law Relating to Public Service Undertakings: Comprising a Survey of the Legal Position of Such Undertakings Generally, and a More Detailed Consideration of Particular Classes of Undertakings, Based on Lectures Delivered at the London School of Economics

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P.S. King & son, Limited, 1925 - Corporation law - 320 pages

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Page 66 - ... shall not be construed to apply to a return of any portion of the capital stock, with the consent of all the mortgagees and bond creditors of the company, due notice being given for that purpose at an extraordinary meeting to be convened for that object.
Page 104 - Conviction, without Proof of the Signature or official Character of the Person appearing to have signed the same...
Page 91 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenant's rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 64 - 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.
Page 96 - Hereditaments rated thereunto; that is to say, of the Rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual Tenant's Rates and Taxes, and Tithe Commutation Rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such Rent...
Page 91 - taxes and tithe commutation rent-charge (if any), and if the landlord " undertook to bear the cost of the repairs and insurance and the other " expenses (if any) necessary to maintain the hereditament in a state to
Page 48 - Where land is, and but for the compulsory acquisition would continue to be, devoted to a purpose of such a nature that there is no general demand or market for land for that purpose, the compensation may, if the official arbitrator is satisfied that reinstatement in some other place is bona fide intended, be assessed on the basis of the reasonable cost of equivalent reinstatement : (6) The provisions of Rule (2) shall not affect the assessment of compensation for disturbance or any other matter not...
Page 147 - In all the Pipes to which any Fire-plug shall be fixed the Undertakers shall provide and keep constantly laid on, unless prevented by Frost, unusual Drought, or other unavoidable Accident, or during necessary Repairs, a sufficient Supply of Water for the following Purposes ; (that is to say,) for cleansing the Sewers and Drains, for cleansing and watering the Streets, and for supplying any Public Pumps, Baths, or Wash-houses that may be established for the free Use of the Inhabitants, or paid for...
Page 96 - Rentcharge, or the Occupier of any Land used as Arable, Meadow, or Pasture Ground only, or as Woodlands, Market Gardens, or Nursery Grounds, and the Occupier of any Land covered with Water, or used only as a Canal or Towing-path for the same, or as a Railway constructed under the Powers of any Act of Parliament for public Conveyance, shall be assessed in respect of the same in the Proportion of One Fourth Part only of such net annual Value thereof...
Page 73 - And be it enacted, That all the Money raised by the Company, whether by Subscriptions of the Shareholders or by Loan or otherwise, shall be applied, firstly, in paying the Costs and Expenses incurred in obtaining the special Ordinance, and all Expenses incident thereto, and, secondly, in carrying the Purposes of the Company into execution.

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