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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... original board of visitors ; in 1654 , the commission was again changed , but not essen- tially , and continued to govern the University for four years . The commission exercised substantially all the powers formerly exercised 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 years . The commission exercised substantially all the powers formerly exercised by the ...
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... original Laudian statutes , as well as by the amendatory statute of 1800 ; the candidates for honors were divided into three instead of two classes ; the system of honor schools was also given a begin- ning by placing mathematics in a ...
... original Laudian statutes , as well as by the amendatory statute of 1800 ; the candidates for honors were divided into three instead of two classes ; the system of honor schools was also given a begin- ning by placing mathematics in a ...
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... original and casting vote in each and to have a previous veto in convocation , subject in some cases to appeal to the dean and chapter and bishop ; the senate was to consist of the chief officers ' of the University , to transact the ...
... original and casting vote in each and to have a previous veto in convocation , subject in some cases to appeal to the dean and chapter and bishop ; the senate was to consist of the chief officers ' of the University , to transact the ...
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Contents
NATIONAL ENGLAND | 61 |
COLONIAL COMPANIES | 157 |
LEGAL VIEW OF CORPORATIONS 209 | 226 |
MODERN CORPORATIONS | 248 |
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