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Meeting, an assembly of persons whose consent is required for anything to decide, by a proper majority of votes, whether or not that thing shall be done; e.g., the meeting of the town council under s. 22 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Acts, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), or (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo.5, c. 51), s. 75.By Common Law in the absence of other provisions a corporation is bound by the majority present at a regular corporate meeting and not only by an absolute majority of the corporation (this does not apply to companies), Perrott and Perrott Ltd. v. Stephenson, (1934) 1 Ch 171; and see Kyd on Corporations, Vol. 1, p. 400; or of the parish or parish council: see PARISH COUNCIL; PARISHMEETING. Also a meeting of the shareholders of a company under ss. 66-80 of the (English) Companies Clauses Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16). As to meetings of creditors, see (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, ss. 13, 79 and 95. A company formed under the Companies Act, 1929...
Public meeting
Public meeting, a meeting which any person may attend. Any number of persons may meet in any place for any lawful purpose with the consent of the owner of that place; but without such consent, and in any case in the public streets, which are lawfully used for the purpose of passing and repassing only (see the ruling of Charles, J., in the Trafalgar Square case in 1887, and Ex parte Lewis, (1888) 21 QBD 191), there is no 'right of public meeting' known to English law.Political meetings within a mile of Westminster Hall during the session of Parliament are prohibited by the Seditious Meetings Act, 1817. As a result of disturbances created by persons advocating the extension of the parliamentary franchise to women there was passed the Public Meeting Act, 1908, which by s. 1 provides as follows:-1.-(1) Any person who at a lawful public meeting acts in a disorderly manner for the purpose of preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting was called together shall be guilty ...
Power of Court to order meeting to be called
Power of Court to order meeting to be called, powers of Court to order meeting to be called. - (1) If for any reason it is impracticable to call a meeting of a company, other than an annual general meeting, in any manner in which meetings of the company may be called, or to hold or conduct the meeting of the company in the manner prescribed by this Act or the articles, the Court may, either of its own motion or on the application of any director of the company, or of any member of the company who would be entitled to vote at the meeting. - (a) order a meeting of the company to be called, held and conducted in such manner as the Court thinks fit; and (b) give such ancillary or consequential directions as the Court thinks expedient, including directions modifying or supplementing in relation to the calling, holding and conducting of the meeting the operation of the provisions of this Act and of the company's articles. Explanation. - The directions that may be given under this sub-section...
Parish meeting
Parish meeting. Established for every rural parish by the Local Government Act, 1894 (see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 43-55, 77, and Sch. III., Part VI.), and consisting of the registered parliamentary electors and county council electors of the parish, each having one vote and no more on any question, or in the case of an election for each of any number of persons not exceeding the number to be elected; bound to assemble annually, or if thee be no parish council, at least twice a year. The proceedings must not begin earlier than 6 p.m. Every question is decided by a majority of those present at a meeting, and voting, the decision of the chairman being final unless a poll, which is taken by ballot, be demanded. On the question of the appointment of chairman for a year, or of the adoption of any 'adoptive Act' (see below) and other questions, any one elector may demand a poll. The chairman of the parish council, or any two parish councillors, or any six r...
annual meeting
annual meeting : a meeting of shareholders that the law requires a corporation to hold each year for the election of directors and the transaction of other business compare special meeting NOTE: In order for a vote taken at an annual meeting to be valid, shareholders must have received notice of the time, place, and date of the meeting within a certain period, and there must be enough shareholders present to make a quorum. ...
special meeting
special meeting : a meeting held for a special and limited purpose ;specif : a corporate meeting held occasionally in addition to the annual meeting to conduct only business described in a notice to the shareholders ...
Extraordinary General Meeting
Extraordinary General Meeting, means a special meeting of the General Body of a Sports Associa-tion other than an Annual General Meeting, Rajasthan Sports (Registration, Recognition and Regulation of Associations) Act, 2005, s. 2(j)....
creditors' meeting
creditors' meeting see 341 meeting Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
family meeting
family meeting in the civil law of Louisiana : a formal extrajudicial meeting of relatives or next friends of a minor or interdict held esp. to advise a court, curator, or tutor ...
meeting of the minds
meeting of the minds :assent to the mutually agreed upon and understood terms of an agreement by the parties to a contract that may be manifest by objective signs of intent (as conduct) [the parties had not reached a meeting of the minds, and they did not have a specifically enforceable agreement "Franklin v. Stern, 858 P.2d 142 (1993) (dissent)"] ...
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