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 Acts, Volume 2T. & T. Clark; (etc., etc.), 1866 - Partnership |
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Page 701
... Parliament assembled , ' has the effect of an Act of Parliament , and can only be repealed by statute ( b ) . Corporations are dissolved by expiration of the terms to which their existence was limited , if they be temporary ( c ) . This ...
... Parliament assembled , ' has the effect of an Act of Parliament , and can only be repealed by statute ( b ) . Corporations are dissolved by expiration of the terms to which their existence was limited , if they be temporary ( c ) . This ...
Page 720
... Parliament , deed of settlement , contract of copartnery , cost - book regulations , letters patent , etc. , and that these are to be read to the same effect as if they were contained in a registered memorandum and articles of ...
... Parliament , deed of settlement , contract of copartnery , cost - book regulations , letters patent , etc. , and that these are to be read to the same effect as if they were contained in a registered memorandum and articles of ...
Page 737
... Parliament for making railways , and it had been found that such railways , or certain parts thereof , could not be made or carried on with advan- tage either to the promoters or the public . It accordingly makes provision for the ...
... Parliament for making railways , and it had been found that such railways , or certain parts thereof , could not be made or carried on with advan- tage either to the promoters or the public . It accordingly makes provision for the ...
Page 739
... Parliament as soon as possible a copy of every warrant of abandonment which they may grant , accompanied by a report of the grounds and reasons upon which they proceeded ( sec . 37 ) . Papers laid ment . before Parlia- CHAPTER VIII ...
... Parliament as soon as possible a copy of every warrant of abandonment which they may grant , accompanied by a report of the grounds and reasons upon which they proceeded ( sec . 37 ) . Papers laid ment . before Parlia- CHAPTER VIII ...
Page 742
... Parliament for a special act , or to the Crown for a new charter , or to wind up and register of new , as the circumstances of the case may require . It is provided by the standing orders , that no powers of amal- gamation shall be ...
... Parliament for a special act , or to the Crown for a new charter , or to wind up and register of new , as the circumstances of the case may require . It is provided by the standing orders , that no powers of amal- gamation shall be ...
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Page 921 - ... shall amount in respect of one call or more upon one share or more (stating the number and amount of each of such calls), whereby an action hath accrued to the company by virtue of t.hia and the special Act.
Page 1046 - ... a body corporate by the name contained in the memorandum, capable forthwith of exercising all the functions of an incorporated company, and having perpetual succession and a common seal...
Page 1047 - ... a statement of the shares held by each member, distinguishing each share by its number ; and of the amount paid or agreed to be considered as paid on the shares of each member : (2.) The date at which the name of any person was entered in the register as a member : (3.) The date at which any person ceased to be a member...
Page 1151 - Les hautes parties contractantes déclarent reconnaître mutuellement à toutes les compagnies et autres associations commerciales, industrielles ou financières, constituées et autorisées suivant les lois particulières à l'un des deux pays, la faculté d'exercer tous leurs droits, et d'ester en justice devant les tribunaux, soit pour intenter une action, soit pour y défendre, dans toute l'étendue des Etats et possessions de l'autre Puissance, sans autre condition que de se conformer aux lois...
Page 1086 - Act, and to such regulations, being not inconsistent with the aforesaid regulations or provisions, as may be prescribed by the company in general meeting ; but no regulation made by the company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the directors which would have been valid if such regulation had not been made.
Page 1089 - 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...
Page 1061 - Company ; and if any person so summoned, after being tendered a reasonable sum for his expenses, refuses to come before the Court at the time appointed, having no lawful impediment (made known to the Court at the time of its sitting and allowed by it) the Court may cause such person to be apprehended and brought before the Court for examination...
Page 1058 - To carry on the business of the company, so far as may be necessary for the beneficial winding up of the same.
Page 973 - Subject to the provisions and restrictions in this and the special Act, and any Act incorporated therewith, it shall be lawful for the company, for the purpose of constructing the railway, or the accommodation works connected therewith, hereinafter mentioned, to execute any of the following works...
Page 931 - All acts done by any meeting of the directors, or of a committee of directors, or by any person acting as a director, shall, notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any such...