The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, from the Year 1785, as are Still of Practical Utility. 1785-1866, Volume 144Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead Sweet & Maxwell, limited, 1914 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... Directors of a Company may be restrained from exercising a power to issue shares where their object is not to benefit the Company , but to create votes in order to control or influence a meeting of the share- holders . Such an issue of ...
... Directors of a Company may be restrained from exercising a power to issue shares where their object is not to benefit the Company , but to create votes in order to control or influence a meeting of the share- holders . Such an issue of ...
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... directors of the Aberystwith Railway drew a cheque for 10,000l . in favour of the defendant Piercey , in respect of ... directors were put under an undertaking not to supply Piercey with any more of the Company's money . Pending the said ...
... directors of the Aberystwith Railway drew a cheque for 10,000l . in favour of the defendant Piercey , in respect of ... directors were put under an undertaking not to supply Piercey with any more of the Company's money . Pending the said ...
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... directors of that Company from " issuing or causing or permitting to be issued any new shares or stock in the Oswestry Company , and from sanctioning the issue of any new shares or stock in the Llanidloes Company . " At a few minutes ...
... directors of that Company from " issuing or causing or permitting to be issued any new shares or stock in the Oswestry Company , and from sanctioning the issue of any new shares or stock in the Llanidloes Company . " At a few minutes ...
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... directors of the Llanidloes Company . " The said George Hammond Whalley at such meeting pro- posed a resolution to the said board in the following terms : " Mid - Wales . " The application to this Company by the Mid - Wales Rail- way ...
... directors of the Llanidloes Company . " The said George Hammond Whalley at such meeting pro- posed a resolution to the said board in the following terms : " Mid - Wales . " The application to this Company by the Mid - Wales Rail- way ...
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... directors ) had refused to pay , and that under these circumstances the directors had sought to " strengthen their position and promote the interests of the Com- panies , " by allying themselves with other lines which would act as ...
... directors ) had refused to pay , and that under these circumstances the directors had sought to " strengthen their position and promote the interests of the Com- panies , " by allying themselves with other lines which would act as ...
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Page 600 - ... rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 455 - ... at any meeting of the committee shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present, and in case of an equal division of votes the chairman shall have a casting vote in addition to his vote as a member of the committee.
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Page 322 - Hope, by any deed or deeds, writing or writings, with or without power of revocation, to be by him sealed and delivered in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses...
Page 567 - Baxendale (1), where it was held, that, where two parties have made a contract, which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract...
Page 456 - Statute shall be understood to include several Matters as well as One Matter, and several Persons as well as One Person, and Females as well as Males, and Bodies Corporate as well as Individuals, unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction...
Page 550 - Defendant afterwards, under leave, reserved at the trial, moved for and obtained a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and...
Page 658 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page 455 - Officer of the Company, and need not be under the Common Seal of the Company, and the same may be in Writing or in Print, or partly in Writing and partly in Print.