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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... houses by Henry VIII . and Edward VI . made the University and its com- ponent colleges tremble for their own revenues , and when fear of spoliation was past the desire of sharing with the courtiers in the spoils was fully as ...
... houses by Henry VIII . and Edward VI . made the University and its com- ponent colleges tremble for their own revenues , and when fear of spoliation was past the desire of sharing with the courtiers in the spoils was fully as ...
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... houses , fellows , students , chaplains , scholars , and exhibitioners , and all members of and in all and every the college and colleges , hall and halls in the said uni- versities or either of them upon all and every vacancy and ...
... houses , fellows , students , chaplains , scholars , and exhibitioners , and all members of and in all and every the college and colleges , hall and halls in the said uni- versities or either of them upon all and every vacancy and ...
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... houses at the Reformation ended the contest and left the national church in control , while some of the colleges profited by the diversion to them of the property of the suppressed bodies , and Christ Church and some professor- ships ...
... houses at the Reformation ended the contest and left the national church in control , while some of the colleges profited by the diversion to them of the property of the suppressed bodies , and Christ Church and some professor- ships ...
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... House of Lords ; the petition prayed for the maintenance of the bishops and their Cathedral churches , as , among other things , " the principal outward motive of all students , especially in divinity , and the fittest reward of some ...
... House of Lords ; the petition prayed for the maintenance of the bishops and their Cathedral churches , as , among other things , " the principal outward motive of all students , especially in divinity , and the fittest reward of some ...
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... houses and fellows might be a subject of com- plaint ; many minute regulations of living and study like those of the Laudian statutes were provided , but they would hardly change one's general impression of a college or its inmates when ...
... houses and fellows might be a subject of com- plaint ; many minute regulations of living and study like those of the Laudian statutes were provided , but they would hardly change one's general impression of a college or its inmates when ...
Contents
NATIONAL ENGLAND | 61 |
COLONIAL COMPANIES | 157 |
LEGAL VIEW OF CORPORATIONS 209 | 226 |
MODERN CORPORATIONS | 248 |
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