Corporations: A Study of the Origin and Development of Great Business Combinations and of Their Relation to the Authority of the StateThe purpose of this work is to trace the historical development of corporate forms and the social functions that have successively been performed within them. The subject of corporations is divided on the basis of those that have been of service to mankind under conditions prevalent in the past and those at the turn of the twentieth century. Covered are: ecclesiastical corporations; feudalism and corporations; municipalities; gilds; educational and eleemosynary corporations; national England; regulated companies; regulated exclusive companies; joint-stock companies; colonial companies; legal view of corporations; and modern corporations. |
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... Church was greater than Catholicism ; feudalism was greater than kings or barons . Modern history , on the contrary ... Churches ; liberty and equality are greater than parliaments and constitutional kingships . Even abstract thought ...
... Church was greater than Catholicism ; feudalism was greater than kings or barons . Modern history , on the contrary ... Churches ; liberty and equality are greater than parliaments and constitutional kingships . Even abstract thought ...
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... Church and ( 3 ) Internal relations , —though the facts included under the second heads were more or less completely merged with those under the first head after the Refor- mation and may not always be easily distinguished or ...
... Church and ( 3 ) Internal relations , —though the facts included under the second heads were more or less completely merged with those under the first head after the Refor- mation and may not always be easily distinguished or ...
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... Church became as dependent on the Crown as the Crown on them . When the civil war broke out the University was more than loyal to the Stuarts ; though for other reasons in addition to that of the loyalty of the University , Oxford ...
... Church became as dependent on the Crown as the Crown on them . When the civil war broke out the University was more than loyal to the Stuarts ; though for other reasons in addition to that of the loyalty of the University , Oxford ...
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... Church , which should put into permanent effect the more funda- mental changes made by the original board of visitors ; in 1654 , the commission was again changed , but not essen- tially , and continued to govern the University for four ...
... Church , which should put into permanent effect the more funda- mental changes made by the original board of visitors ; in 1654 , the commission was again changed , but not essen- tially , and continued to govern the University for four ...
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... Church caused by the interference of the state . After the Revolution of 1688 , the state seemed to sus- tain a somewhat modified attitude towards the University largely because religious questions had lost their previous importance in ...
... Church caused by the interference of the state . After the Revolution of 1688 , the state seemed to sus- tain a somewhat modified attitude towards the University largely because religious questions had lost their previous importance in ...
Contents
NATIONAL ENGLAND | 61 |
COLONIAL COMPANIES | 157 |
LEGAL VIEW OF CORPORATIONS 209 | 226 |
MODERN CORPORATIONS | 248 |
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