TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF A CORPORATION

Section

Page

1. The Corporation as Distinguished from Other Forms of Business As-

sociation

1

2. The Corporation as Distinguished from its Stockholders..

3. The Corporation as a Person

18

47

CHAPTER II

FORMATION

1. Steps Essential to Organization

60

2. Effect of Failure to Comply With the Statute-De Facto Corporations 79

Subscription to Stock

3.

4.

Promoters

I. The Promoter as a Fiduciary

II. Promoters' Contracts and Corporate Liability.

CHAPTER III

112

164

164

186

1.

Power of the Legislature to Repeal the Corporate Charter....

658

2. Power of the Legislature to Alter or Amend the Corporate Charter.. 665

1. Rights and Remedies at Law and in Equity Against the Corporation 730

2. Creditors' Rights Against Transferees of Corporate Property........ 758

3. Creditors' Rights as Affected by Merger or Consolidation..

5. Creditors' Rights Against Stockholders and Their Transferees.

I. At Common Law

II. By Statute

6. Creditors' Rights Against the Officers of the Corporation

...

779

789

793

793

836

848

WHERE SMALL CAPITALS

(CASES CITED IN FOOTNOTES ARE INDICATED BY ITALICS.
ARE USED, THE CASE IS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT]

279

519

....

244

ASHBURY RY. CARRIAGE & IRON
Co. v. RICHE
ASIATIC BANKING Co., IN RE.... 265
ATHOL MUSIC HALL Co. v. CAREY 120
Atlantic & B. R. Co. v. Johnson.. 789
Atlantic & G. R. Co. v. Georgia.. 703
Atlantic & P. Tel. Co. v. Union

Pac. R. Co.
331
Attorney General, Ex parte..... 725
ATTORNEY GENERAL V. STEVENS.. 107
Attorney General v. Superior &
St. C. R. Co......
701
Attorney General v. Tudor Ice Co. 710
Atwool v. Merryweather
Aurora Soc. v. Paddock
AUSTIN V. TECUMSEH NAT. BANK 781
Automatic Self-Cleansing Filter

Syndicate Co. v. Cunningham.. 604
Avondale Land Co. v. Shook.... 678

Bacon v. Robertson
Badger Paper Co. v. Rose.
RICH.CORP.

BEATTY V. MARINE INS. Co..... 383
Beatty v. Northwestern Transp.
Co.

715 Beckett v. Houston

483

428

135 Beers v. Bridgeport Spring Co... 452

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Day v. Spiral Springs Buggy Co. 378 | Erie & North East R. Co. v. Casey 665