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A law enacted to provide for the regulation and supervision of investment companies in order to protect the public against companies that do not intend to do a fair and honest
Company
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Insurance
all; in some the principle on which the allotment is made is not disclosed. the third species of company is that which is formed on the basis of mutual insurance. In this there is no proprietary body … practice of marine insurance is older than insurance against fire and upon lives, and the whole of the law is now codified in the (English) Marine Insurance Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 41). The Act renders
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Person
Kshetra Mohan-Sannyasi Charan Sadhukhan v. Commissioner of Excess Profit Tax, West Bengal, AIR 1953 SC 516. According to company law it does not mean an unregistered firm, Firm Pannaji v. Devichand Kapurchand, 99 IC 640. Person, does not
Debenture
Debentures by County Authorities, see (English) Local Loans Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 83).--Consult Lindley on Company Law; Buckley on Companies; Palmer's Company Precedents, Pt. III.; Stiebel on Companies. A debenture has been defined to mean … to mean essentially as an acknowledgement of debt, with a commitment to repay the principal with interest (Palmer's Company Law; p. 672) (24th Edition), Narendra Kumar Maheshwari v. Union of India, 1990 Supp SCC 440: AIR 1989 SC
Just and equitable
than a mere legal entity with a personality in law of its own: that there is room in company law for recognition of the fact that behind it, or amongst it, there are individuals, with rights, expectation and … a mere legal entity, with a personality in law of its own; and that there is room in company law for recognition of the fact that behind it, or amongst it, there are individuals, with rights, expectations and
Directors
persons appointed or elected according to law, authorized to manage and direct the affairs of a corporation or company. The whole of the directors collectively form the board of directors. Their powers, if the company be incorporated
Winding-up
upon it. The term is most frequently applied to the winding-up of joint-stock companies. The property of a company is collected and distributed firstly in discharge of its liabilities, and secondly, among its members according to their … claims, and the valuation of annuities and future or contingent liabilities are to be regulated according to the law of bankruptcy (s. 262). S. 264 provides for preferential payments and (if the company is registered in England)
By-laws, or bye-laws
unless contrary to law, or unreasonable, and against the common benefit, and then they are void. No trading company is allowed to make by-laws which may affect the crown, or the common profit of the people under
Railway
Railway. A road owned by a private person or public company on which carriages run over iron rails; if the road is a public highway, that part of it … Acts of 1854, 1873, and 1888. The (English) Act of 1845, s. 86, enacts that:- It shall be lawful for the company [authorized (see s. 3) by the special Act to construct the railway] to use and
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