The standard model and beyondM. Zralek Nova Science Pub., Incorporated, 1903 - 428 pages |
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... charter relieves them from personal responsibility and substitutes the capital stock in its stead . Credit is uni- versally given to this fund by the public as the only means of repayment . * * The stockholders have no rights until all ...
... charter relieves them from personal responsibility and substitutes the capital stock in its stead . Credit is uni- versally given to this fund by the public as the only means of repayment . * * The stockholders have no rights until all ...
Page 67
... charter ) as abso- lutely as an individual can hold it . Its estate is the same , its interest is the same , its possession is the same . " And in the Wabash R. R. Co. case , the court held that all that the trust fund doctrine meant ...
... charter ) as abso- lutely as an individual can hold it . Its estate is the same , its interest is the same , its possession is the same . " And in the Wabash R. R. Co. case , the court held that all that the trust fund doctrine meant ...
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... charters . In particular the controversies a number of months ago with corporations affiliated with the Standard Oil Co. may be recalled from the wide discussion and editorial comment elicited . Texas , however , has experienced no ...
... charters . In particular the controversies a number of months ago with corporations affiliated with the Standard Oil Co. may be recalled from the wide discussion and editorial comment elicited . Texas , however , has experienced no ...
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... charter , one corporation cannot lend its credit to another . Smith v . Alabama L. Ins . Co. , 4 Ala . 558. So it was ultra vires for a railroad corpo- ration to guarantee the dividends of an elevator company . 30 Am . and Eng . R. R. ...
... charter , one corporation cannot lend its credit to another . Smith v . Alabama L. Ins . Co. , 4 Ala . 558. So it was ultra vires for a railroad corpo- ration to guarantee the dividends of an elevator company . 30 Am . and Eng . R. R. ...
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... Charter Oak Bank , 121 U. S. 121 ( 1887 ) , in which the court said : " Towns in Connecticut , as in the other New England States , differ from trading companies , or even from municipal corporations elsewhere . They are territorial ...
... Charter Oak Bank , 121 U. S. 121 ( 1887 ) , in which the court said : " Towns in Connecticut , as in the other New England States , differ from trading companies , or even from municipal corporations elsewhere . They are territorial ...
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Page 342 - Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 416 - An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 340 - Such is the settled doctrine of the English and American courts and publicists, and it is embodied in the second of the instructions issued by the Secretary of the Navy, June 20, 1898, General Order No. 492: "A blockade to be effective and binding must be maintained by a force sufficient to render ingress to or egress from the port dangerous.
Page 393 - ... than the amount hereby insured shall bear to the whole insurance, whether valid or not, or by solvent or insolvent insurers, covering such property...
Page 219 - The effects which compose the partnership or community of gains, are divided into two equal portions between the husband and the wife, or between their heirs, at the dissolution of the marriage...
Page 144 - Mastering the lawless science of our law, That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances, Thro' which a few, by wit or fortune led, May beat a pathway out to wealth and fame.
Page 384 - Certainly works are not the less connected with the fine arts because their pictorial quality attracts the crowd and therefore gives them a real use — if use means to increase trade and to help to make money. A picture is none the less a picture and none the less a subject of copyright that it is used for an advertisement.
Page 385 - ... appreciation. Their very novelty would make them repulsive until the public had learned the new language in which their author spoke. It may be more than doubted, for instance, whether the etchings of Goya or the paintings of Manet would have been sure of protection when seen for the first time. At the other end, copyright would be denied to pictures which appealed to a public less educated than the judge.
Page 505 - Commonwealth, c. 75, § 137, provide that "the board of health of a city or town if, in its opinion, it is necessary for the public health or safety shall require and enforce the vaccination and revaccination of all the inhabitants thereof and shall provide them with the means of free vaccination. Whoever, being over twentyone years of age and not under guardianship, refuses or neglects to comply with such requirement shall forfeit five dollars.
Page 282 - An act of parliament may not make adultery lawful, that is, it cannot make it lawful for A. to lie with the wife of B. but it may make the wife of A. to be the wife of B. and dissolve her marriage with A.