Company Law: A Practical Handbook for Lawyers & Business Men, with an Appendix Containing the Companies (consolidation) Act, 1908, and Other Acts and Rules |
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Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 435 - Any contract, which if made between private persons would by law be valid, although made by parol only, and not reduced into writing, may be made by parol on behalf of the Company by any person acting under the express or implied authority of the Company, and such contract may in the same way be varied or discharged.
Page 505 - We, the several persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a company, in pursuance of this memorandum of association, and we respectively agree to take the number of shares in the capital of the company set opposite our respective names.
Page 483 - ... the court is of opinion that it is just and equitable that the company should be wound up.
Page 207 - Whosoever being a director, manager, or public officer of any body corporate or public company, shall make, circulate, or publish, or concur in making, circulating, or publishing, any written statement or account which he shall know to be false in any material particular...
Page 468 - ... present or future, certain or contingent, ascertained or sounding only in damages, subsisting or supposed to subsist between the company and...
Page 66 - To sell, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise deal with all or any part of the property and rights of the company...
Page 17 - The purpose of such a statute surely was that on any point specifically dealt with by it, the law should be ascertained by interpreting the language used, instead of, as before, by roaming over a vast number of authorities...
Page 499 - 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...
Page 432 - Court so directs, the following provisions shall have effect, subject nevertheless to subsection (3) (a) every creditor of the company who at the date fixed by the Court is entitled to any debt or claim which, if that date were the commencement of the winding up of the company, would be admissible in proof...
Page 357 - ... and (c) Prohibits any invitation to the public to subscribe for any shares or debentures of the company.