Pennsylvania Acts of Assembly and Leading Court Opinions Applicable to Water Companies, 1874-[1916] |
Common terms and phrases
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Page 7 - The stock and indebtedness of corporations shall not be increased except in pursuance of general law, nor without the consent of the persons holding the larger amount in value of the stock first obtained at a meeting to be held after sixty days' notice given in pursuance of law.
Page 50 - No corporation shall issue stocks or bonds except for money, labor done, or money or property actually received; and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.
Page 6 - The exercise of the right of eminent domain shall never be abridged or so construed as to prevent the General Assembly from taking the property and franchises of incorporated companies, and subjecting them to public use, the same as the property of individuals...
Page 152 - That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Page 140 - ... all rights of creditors and all liens upon the property of either of said former corporations shall be preserved unimpaired...
Page 181 - Commonwealth, and with all its endorsements shall then be recorded in the office for the recording of deeds In and for the...
Page 320 - Municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use, shall make just compensation for property taken, injured, or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their works, highways, or improvements, which compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury, or destruction.
Page 111 - An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations," approved the twenty-ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four...
Page 19 - That corporations may be formed under the provisions of this act by the voluntary association of five or more persons, 1 for the purposes, and in the manner mentioned herein, and when so formed, each of them by virtue of its existence as such, shall have the following powers unless otherwise specially provided.
Page 6 - The General Assembly shall .lot remit the forfeiture of the charter of any corporation now existing, or alter or amend the same, or pass any other general or special law for the benefit of such corporation, except upon the condition that such corporation shall thereafter hold its charter subject to the provisions of this Constitution.* Section 3.