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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... political changes caused by the despotism of the new Tudor monarchy , the imperious tyranny of the Stuarts , the leading iconoclasm of the Commonwealth and the constitutional kingship of the Hanoverians , through all the religious ...
... political changes caused by the despotism of the new Tudor monarchy , the imperious tyranny of the Stuarts , the leading iconoclasm of the Commonwealth and the constitutional kingship of the Hanoverians , through all the religious ...
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... political or religious , was accompanied by a demand for a revision of the statutes of the University involving , at least in theory , even its constitution ; whether the new code of statutes in answer to the demand emanated from the ...
... political or religious , was accompanied by a demand for a revision of the statutes of the University involving , at least in theory , even its constitution ; whether the new code of statutes in answer to the demand emanated from the ...
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... politics and because the University itself had declined in importance . The century follow- ing the revolution is rightly called by Brodrick " the Dark Age of academical history . " Only when a rebellion in behalf of the Pretender was ...
... politics and because the University itself had declined in importance . The century follow- ing the revolution is rightly called by Brodrick " the Dark Age of academical history . " Only when a rebellion in behalf of the Pretender was ...
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Contents
NATIONAL ENGLAND | 61 |
COLONIAL COMPANIES | 157 |
LEGAL VIEW OF CORPORATIONS 209 | 226 |
MODERN CORPORATIONS | 248 |
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