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The act performed by a publicly traded corporation of paying a corporate raider to give up a takeover attempt by buying the shares of stock he owns also the threat

Disincorporate

To deprive of corporate powers rights or privileges to divest of the condition of a corporate body

have been transferred are liable to creditors upon dissolution of the corporation ;broadly : a doctrine holding that corporate assets are held as a trust fund for the benefit of shareholders and creditors and that corporate officers

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s corporation

with a limited number of shareholders. Its major significance is the fact that an S corporation usually avoids corporate income tax. Corporate losses can be claimed by the shareholders. Source: FindLaw

dividend

dividend 1 : the part of corporate net earnings distributed usually periodically (as quarterly) to stockholders in the form of cash, additional shares, or property

resolution

group see also concurrent resolution, joint resolution 2 : an expression or document containing authorization usually by a corporate board of directors of a particular act, transaction, agent, or representative [a corporate authorizing counsel to bind the

Public servant

as follows: Twelfth. - Every officer in the service or pay of a local authority or of a corporation engaged in any trade or industry which is established by a Central Provincial or State Act or of

merger

by the divorce decree 6 a : the act or process of merging b : absorption by one corporation of another ;also : any of various methods of combining two or more organizations (as business concerns) compare

Advowson

Collative advowsons. (I.) A presentative advowson appendant is a right of patronage annexed to the possession of some corporeal hereditament. Thus, where an advowson has immemorially passed together with a manor or reputed manor by a simple

Local authority

as administrative units for state services, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 321. Means a municipal corporation, a municipal council, a Nagar Panchayat, an Industrial Township, a Cantonment Board, a Village Panchayat Constituted or Continued

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