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 2 |
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Their duties are to see that the prescribed machinery for the ascertainment of the facts works properly , and to apply the existing law to those facts when so ascertained . In such matters there is no room for discretion , since no ...
Their duties are to see that the prescribed machinery for the ascertainment of the facts works properly , and to apply the existing law to those facts when so ascertained . In such matters there is no room for discretion , since no ...
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Such regulations are most advantageous if they are only carried out ; but it too often happens that balances are not struck at the prescribed periods , either from carelessness or from difficulties in arranging the accounts , so that ...
Such regulations are most advantageous if they are only carried out ; but it too often happens that balances are not struck at the prescribed periods , either from carelessness or from difficulties in arranging the accounts , so that ...
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When such formalities have been prescribed , their due observance is generally necessary to complete the transfer in all questions inter socios , though a neglect of this cannot be founded on as a means of escaping from company ...
When such formalities have been prescribed , their due observance is generally necessary to complete the transfer in all questions inter socios , though a neglect of this cannot be founded on as a means of escaping from company ...
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In chartered companies , and companies formed under the Mode of Letters Patent Act , transfers on death can only be made by chartered companies . attending to such formalities as are prescribed by the incorporating instrument ; and if ...
In chartered companies , and companies formed under the Mode of Letters Patent Act , transfers on death can only be made by chartered companies . attending to such formalities as are prescribed by the incorporating instrument ; and if ...
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Prescription . Liquidators may pay or compromise . judge may either adopt the liquidator's list , or may require such of the claims as he thinks proper to be proved . The liquidator then gives notice to the creditors , whose claims have ...
Prescription . Liquidators may pay or compromise . judge may either adopt the liquidator's list , or may require such of the claims as he thinks proper to be proved . The liquidator then gives notice to the creditors , whose claims have ...
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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...