The Law and Practice Under the Companies Acts: 1862, 1867, 1870, and the Life Assurance Companies Acts, 1870, 1871, 1872, and Other Acts Relating to Joint Stock Companies: Containing the Statutes and the Rules, Orders and Forms to Regulate Proceedings in the High Court of Chancery and the County Courts, and on Appeals from the Court of the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries |
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Page 292 - Any notice, if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of the post...
Page 116 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales, with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 116 - Manner directed by the Act passed in the Session holden in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Chapter Ninety-three intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts regulating the Proceedings of Petty Sessions, and the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Quarter Sessions in Ireland, or any Act passed for the Amendment of the above-mentioned Acts.
Page 283 - Office ; but if no such Chairman is elected, or if at any Meeting the Chairman is not present at the Time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present shall choose some One of their Number to be Chairman of such Meeting.
Page 283 - Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present ; and in case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
Page 283 - The directors may delegate any of their powers to committees consisting of such member or members of their body as they think fit. Any committee so formed shall, in the exercise of the powers so delegated, conform to any regulations that may be imposed on them by the directors.
Page 301 - ... of the company, shall be sufficient evidence of the fact, without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against such resolution.
Page 31 - Every share in any company shall be deemed and taken to have been issued, and to be held subject to the payment of the whole amount thereof in cash...
Page 88 - In the event of a company formed under this Act being wound up, every present and past member (/3) of such company shall be liable to contribute to the assets of the company to an amount sufficient for payment of the debts and liabilities of the company...
Page 289 - Association contracted before the time at which he ceases to be a member, and of the costs, charges, and expenses of winding up the same, and for the adjustment of the rights...