Trade Promotion Series, Issue 147U.S. Government Printing Office, 1933 - United States |
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... Debts secured by debentures or other charges are paid before unsecured debts . Consequently persons extending credit to British companies should be extremely careful to ascertain the amount of outstanding indebt- edness covered by such ...
... Debts secured by debentures or other charges are paid before unsecured debts . Consequently persons extending credit to British companies should be extremely careful to ascertain the amount of outstanding indebt- edness covered by such ...
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... debts or claims must be discharged or determined or secured to the satisfaction of the court . For special reasons the court may dis- pense with the notice required above . In any event , the court must have regard for the rights and ...
... debts or claims must be discharged or determined or secured to the satisfaction of the court . For special reasons the court may dis- pense with the notice required above . In any event , the court must have regard for the rights and ...
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... debts are included in float- ing assets . In preparing the balance sheet of the company , the man- ner of determining the value of the fixed assets must be shown ( sec . 124 , Companies Act ) . 30 Re Blair Open Hearth Furnaces , Ltd ...
... debts are included in float- ing assets . In preparing the balance sheet of the company , the man- ner of determining the value of the fixed assets must be shown ( sec . 124 , Companies Act ) . 30 Re Blair Open Hearth Furnaces , Ltd ...
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... debt due from the company . Increase , alteration , and reduction of capital . — If authorized by its articles , a ... debts and liabilities of the company by means of advertise- ments ; a list of creditors is settled by the court . When ...
... debt due from the company . Increase , alteration , and reduction of capital . — If authorized by its articles , a ... debts and liabilities of the company by means of advertise- ments ; a list of creditors is settled by the court . When ...
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... debt except in case of a winding up , when all calls must be paid in full and debts are proved . Transmission . - When a shareholder dies , the corporate existence of the company is not affected ; the shares are personal property 51 and ...
... debt except in case of a winding up , when all calls must be paid in full and debts are proved . Transmission . - When a shareholder dies , the corporate existence of the company is not affected ; the shares are personal property 51 and ...
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Page 141 - All acts done by any meeting of the directors, or of a committee of directors, or by any person acting as a director, shall, notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any such...
Page 141 - The directors may, before recommending any dividend, set aside out of the profits of the company such sums as they think proper as a reserve or reserves...
Page 6 - ... to carry on some business which under existing circumstances may conveniently or advantageously be combined with the business of the company...
Page 141 - Subject to the rights of persons, if any, entitled to shares with special rights as to dividends, all dividends shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid on the shares...
Page 134 - I AB of in consideration of the sum of paid to me by CD of do hereby transfer to the said CD, his executors, administrators, and assigns, a certain mortgage...
Page 140 - Any casual vacancy occurring in the board of directors may be filled up by the directors, but any person so chosen shall retain his office so long only as the vacating director would have retained the same if no vacancy had occurred.
Page 140 - The directors to retire in every year shall be those who have been longest in office since their last election, but as between persons who became directors on the same day those to retire shall, unless they otherwise agree among themselves, be determined by lot.
Page 134 - ... shares) standing registered in the name of a single person for all moneys presently payable by him or his estate to the company; but the directors may at any time declare any share to be wholly or in part exempt from the provisions of this regulation. The company's lien, if any, on a share shall extend to all dividends payable thereon.
Page 134 - The proceeds of the sale shall be received by the company and applied in payment of such part of the amount in respect of which the lien exists as is presently payable, and the residue shall (subject to a like lien for sums not presently payable as existed upon the shares prior to the sale) be paid to the person entitled to the shares at the date of the sale. Calls on shares.
Page 139 - The business of the Company shall be managed by the directors, who may pay all expenses incurred in...