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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...
Borrowing members' resolution
Borrowing members' resolution, A resolution is a borrowing members' resolution when it has been passed by a majority of the borrowing members of the building society voting either in person or by proxy on a poll on the resolution at a meeting of which notice specifying the intention to move the resolution as a borrowing member's resolution has been duly given, or in a postal ballot on the resolution of which notice specifying that the resolution will not be effective unless it is passed as a borrowing member's resolution has been duly given, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 827, p. 517....
Homagium non per procuratores nec per literas fleri potuit, sed in propria persona tam domini quam tenentis capi debet et fleri
Homagium non per procuratores nec per literas fleri potuit, sed in propria persona tam domini quam tenentis capi debet et fleri. Co. Litt. 68 a.-(Homage cannot be done by proxy, nor by letters, but must be paid and received in the proper person as well of lord as of the tenant.)...
Election
Election, the word 'election' means any and every act taken by the competent authority after the publication of the election notification, Manda Jaganath v. K.S. Rathnam, (2004) 7 SCC 492: AIR 2004 SC 3601 (3604).The act of selecting one or more from a greater number for an office.The exercise of his choice by a man left to his own free will to take or to do one thing or another. It is the obligation imposed upon a person to choose between two inconsistent or alternative rights or claims. Thus, in Scarf v. Jardine, (1882) 7 App Cas 345, the House of Lords held that a customer could not sue a new firm after having elected to sue a retiring partner.Electio semel facta et placitum testatum non patitur regressum. Quod semel placuit in electionibus amplius displicere non potest. Co. Litt. 146, 146 a.--(Elections once made and plea witnessed suffers not a recall. What has once pleased a man in elections cannot displease him on further consideration.) See also Re Simms, Ex p. Trustee, 1934 Ch...
Proxyship
The office or agency of a proxy...
Proxy
The agency for another who acts through the agent authority to act for another esp to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity...
solicitation
solicitation : an act or practice or an instance of soliciting [ of a proxy for a shareholder vote] ;specif : the crime of soliciting someone to commit a crime (as murder) ...
shareholder
shareholder : one that owns a share in a fund (as a mutual fund) or property ;esp : stockholder see also derivative action, equity, proxy contest share·hold·ing adj or n ...
Cancellation
Cancellation, any manner of obliteration and defacement, as of an adhesive stamp in the manner prescribed by s. 8 of the (English) Stamp Act, 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 91), which enacts that-(1) Mode of Cancellation. An instrument, the duty upon which is required or permitted by law [see ss. 22, 34, 49(2), 52(3), 64, 69(3), 78(1), 79(2), 80(2), 85(1), 90, 99, 101(2), 110(1), and 111(2)], to be denoted by an adhesive stamp, is not to be deemed duly stamped with an adhesive stamp, unless the person required by law to cancel the adhesive stamp cancels the same by writing on or across the stamp his name or initials, or the name or initials of his firm, together with the true date of his so writing, or otherwise effectively cancels the stamp and renders the same incapable of being used for any other instrument, or for any postal purpose, or unless it is otherwise proved that the stamp appearing on the instrument was affixed thereto at the proper time.(2) Plurality of Stamps. Where two or more ...
Procuration
Procuration, an agency, the administration of the business of another; also moneys which parish priests pay yearly to the bishop or archdeacon, ratione visitationis; these are also called proxies, and it is said that there are three sorts--ratione visitationis, consuetudinis, et pactiHardr. 180Bills of Exchange may be drawn, accepted, or endorsed by procuration, i.e., by an agent who has an authority for such a purpose, and 'a signature by procuration operates as notice that the agent has but a limited authority to sign, and the principal is only bound by such signature if the agent in so signing was acting within the actual limits of his authority.'--Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 25. The words 'per pro.' Or 'p.p.' (by procuration) usually follow the signature of an agent, and by s. 26 of the Bills of Exchange Act, a person signing a bill and adding words indicating that he signs in a representative capacity is not personally liable on the bill....
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