Of Interest to Lawyers and All Concerned with Incorporating Business Enterprises: How to Incorporate in New Jersey, New York, Delaware, [and] West Virginia

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Brown-Green Company, 1899 - 64 pages
 

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Page 53 - No foreign stock corporation other than a monied corporation, shall do business in this state without having first procured from the secretary of state a certificate that it has complied with all the requirements of law to authorize it to do business in this state, and that the business of the corporation to be carried on in this state is such as may be lawfully carried on by a corporation incorporated under the laws of this state for such or similar business...
Page 54 - ... particularly setting forth the business or objects of the corporation which it is engaged in carrying on or which it proposes to carry on within the state, and a place within the state which is to be its principal place of business, and designating in the manner prescribed in the code of civil procedure a person upon whom process against the corporation may be served within the state.
Page 44 - ... 8. The certificate of incorporation may also contain any provision which the incorporators may choose to insert for the regulation of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the corporation, and any provisions creating, defining, limiting and regulating the powers of the corporation, the directors and the stockholders, or any class of the stockholders; provided, such provisions are not contrary to the laws of this State.
Page 43 - ... the number of shares into which the same is divided and the par value of each share; the amount of capital stock with which it will commence business, which shall not be less than...
Page 11 - ... corporation without this State ; the names and addresses of all the directors and officers of the company and...
Page 31 - The name of the corporation, which name shall contain one of the words "association", "company", "corporation", "club", "incorporated", "society", "union", or "syndicate" or one of the abbreviations, "co." or "inc." and shall be such as to distinguish it from any other corporation engaged in the same business, or promoting or carrying on the same objects or purposes in this State.
Page 31 - The name of the city or town, county or place, within the county in which its principal office or place of business is to be located in this state, and the name of its resident agent.
Page 11 - The original or duplicate stock ledger containing the names and addresses of the stockholders, and the number of shares held by them, respectively, shall, at all times, during the usual hours for business, be open to the examination of every stockholder...
Page 53 - Every foreign stock corporation having an office for the transaction of business in this state, except moneyed and railroad corporations, shall keep therein a book to be known as a stock book, containing the names, alphabetically arranged, of all persons who are stockholders of the corporation, showing their places of residence, the number, of shares of stock held by them respectively, the time when they respectively became the owners thereof, and the amount paid thereon.
Page 24 - ... showing their places of residence, the number of shares of stock held by them respectively, and the time when they respectively became the owners of such shares, and...

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