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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... courts and Parliament , must support his pretensions . When he was seeking a divorce from Catherine , in 1530 , he demanded that the University of Oxford unite its sanction with those that had been ob- tained from continental ...
... courts and Parliament , must support his pretensions . When he was seeking a divorce from Catherine , in 1530 , he demanded that the University of Oxford unite its sanction with those that had been ob- tained from continental ...
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... court , leaving his active work as administrative head to be done by a resident vice - chancellor ; he must now be a courtier or courtly prelate , a Leicester or a Laud . Every radical change of policy , whether political or religious ...
... court , leaving his active work as administrative head to be done by a resident vice - chancellor ; he must now be a courtier or courtly prelate , a Leicester or a Laud . Every radical change of policy , whether political or religious ...
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... courts , until the city was captured by the Parliamentary army . When James II . , by his Declara- tion of Indulgence , in 1687 , sought to confer on Roman Catholics the right of admission to corporations , and began the enforcement of ...
... courts , until the city was captured by the Parliamentary army . When James II . , by his Declara- tion of Indulgence , in 1687 , sought to confer on Roman Catholics the right of admission to corporations , and began the enforcement of ...
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... court " than its head , the vice - chancellor , appointed by him , be- came the acting head ; in 1569 , he was required by the Edwardine statutes to be elected by the congregation ; twenty years later his nomination was again vested in ...
... court " than its head , the vice - chancellor , appointed by him , be- came the acting head ; in 1569 , he was required by the Edwardine statutes to be elected by the congregation ; twenty years later his nomination was again vested in ...
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Contents
NATIONAL ENGLAND | 61 |
COLONIAL COMPANIES | 157 |
LEGAL VIEW OF CORPORATIONS 209 | 226 |
MODERN CORPORATIONS | 248 |
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