Excerpt from A Manual of the Business Corporation Law of Massachusetts This Manual contains the text of the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law of 1903, and, following each section, concise notes of such decisions upon the efiect of former statutes relating to corporations as may aid in the construction and interpretation of the new act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Manual of the Laws of Massachusetts in Relation to Manufacturing Corporations: Together With a Summary of the Laws Affecting Corporations Generally in This Commonwealth, Especially Those Organized for Business Purposes Turning now to seek for the rules of law by which these vast capitalizations of the Productive Indus try of the Commonwealth are controlled and ad ministered, we find them, so far as legislation is concerned, embodied in not' less than seventy-one different Statutes and parts of Statutes, not reckon ing those enacted prior to the codification of 1836, those passed between the times of this codification and that of 1860, and Statutes repealed, all of which are important in their-relation to Acts now in force, and also for the better understanding of judicial de cisions with which they have been interwoven in the growth of our common law upon these subjects. This is of even more imposing proportions than the whole body of the statute law above noted, extend ing through a lengthening series of adjudicated cases, and having a value and practical importance steadily augmenting with the growth and develop ment of the industrial energies of our people. It has proved impossible to permit this mass of com mon law to be passed in full review before the reader of a volume which is designed to compress into a narrow compass the essence, as it were, of extant and contemporaneous rules, in their practical appli cation to the management of corporate affairs, and to the ascertainment of the interdependent rights, duties, and liabilities of the officers and stockholders of manufacturing corporations. The attempt has therefore been made to present such only of the salient points of each adjudication used, as seemed more closely connected with the special tepic under consideration, and of indicating by references, rather than by quotations, the sources of fuller informa tion. It is hoped that the general plan and strue ture of the book, the methods of subdivision and arrangement employed, together with the tables, indexes, etc., may render it in reality, as well as in name, a Manual for the use of all who have occasion to inform themselves in regard to the law of manu facturing corporations in this Commonwealth at the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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