Arnold's Guide for Business Corporations in the State of New York: Containing the Business Corporations Law, the Stock Corporation Law, the General Corporation Law, and Other Laws Affecting Business Corporations (as Amended to Date) with Notes and Forms

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Baker, Voorhis, 1907 - Corporation law - 212 pages

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Page 103 - ... no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may so testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, and no testimony so given or produced shall be received against him upon any criminal investigation or proceeding.
Page 174 - Corporations may be formed under general laws ; but shall not be created by special act, except for municipal purposes, and in cases where, in the judgment of the legislature, the objects of the corporation cannot be attained under general laws.
Page 27 - Commission, on the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture...
Page 62 - ... and funds in the hands of such executor, administrator, guardian or trustee shall be liable in like manner, and to the same extent as the testator or intestate, or the ward or person interested in such trust fund would have been, if he had been living and competent to act, and held the same stock in his own name.
Page 47 - The stock of such company shall be deemed personal estate, and shall be transferable in such manner as shall be prescribed by the by-laws of the company ; but no shares shall be transferable until all previous calls thereon shall have been fully paid in, or shall have been declared forfeited for the non-payment of calls thereon.
Page 22 - The amount of its capital stock and the number of shares into which the same shall be divided.
Page 150 - ... by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
Page 100 - Laws repealed. - Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is repealed.
Page 153 - Such as shall be conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previously contracted in the course of its dealings.
Page 169 - Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

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