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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... sixteenth to the nineteenth century , through all the 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 ...
... sixteenth to the nineteenth century , through all the 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 ...
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... sixteenth century to protect itself by humility , conciliation and obsequious- ness , against the Crown itself . The chancellor , originally the representative of the Church in its control of learn- ing , but long the active head of the ...
... sixteenth century to protect itself by humility , conciliation and obsequious- ness , against the Crown itself . The chancellor , originally the representative of the Church in its control of learn- ing , but long the active head of the ...
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... sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that they threatened at times to form a permanent part of the University constitution . A commission appointed by Edward VI . under the great seal was designed chiefly to eliminate popery from Oxford ...
... sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that they threatened at times to form a permanent part of the University constitution . A commission appointed by Edward VI . under the great seal was designed chiefly to eliminate popery from Oxford ...
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... sixteenth century . The " college monopoly " expanded during the six- teenth and seventeenth century until it controlled not only the membership of the University but also its gov- ernment . After the chancellor became habitually non ...
... sixteenth century . The " college monopoly " expanded during the six- teenth and seventeenth century until it controlled not only the membership of the University but also its gov- ernment . After the chancellor became habitually non ...
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... sixteenth century may have operated to decrease the corporate spirit of the colleges by permitting the scholar to study with less dependence on the books owned by the college and used in common . The Laudian stat- utes provided for a ...
... sixteenth century may have operated to decrease the corporate spirit of the colleges by permitting the scholar to study with less dependence on the books owned by the college and used in common . The Laudian stat- utes provided for a ...
Contents
NATIONAL ENGLAND | 61 |
COLONIAL COMPANIES | 157 |
LEGAL VIEW OF CORPORATIONS 209 | 226 |
MODERN CORPORATIONS | 248 |
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