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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... charters into the hands of Cardinal Wolsey with the request that he should use his own pleasure in amending them ; when they were returned five years later , with a new one from the King , they were received with the greatest ...
... charters into the hands of Cardinal Wolsey with the request that he should use his own pleasure in amending them ; when they were returned five years later , with a new one from the King , they were received with the greatest ...
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... In 1836 , William IV . granted to a number of noblemen and gentlemen a charter for a new univer- sity , to be called " The University of London , " of which they should constitute the senate , 1 " for the Educational and Eleemosynary 23.
... In 1836 , William IV . granted to a number of noblemen and gentlemen a charter for a new univer- sity , to be called " The University of London , " of which they should constitute the senate , 1 " for the Educational and Eleemosynary 23.
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... charter was accordingly granted by Victoria in 1837 ; a third charter was granted in 1858 ; for the purpose at hand , the provisions of the several charters may be considered together without doing injustice to the subject . istration ...
... charter was accordingly granted by Victoria in 1837 ; a third charter was granted in 1858 ; for the purpose at hand , the provisions of the several charters may be considered together without doing injustice to the subject . istration ...
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Contents
NATIONAL ENGLAND | 61 |
COLONIAL COMPANIES | 157 |
LEGAL VIEW OF CORPORATIONS 209 | 226 |
MODERN CORPORATIONS | 248 |
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