Secretarial practice

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Identifikator:: 1828236004

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-249926

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Secretarial practice

Edition:: fourth edition

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: viii, 987 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XII. Meeting of shareholders

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAPTER XII MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS THE subject of this chapter is meetings of shareholders of a company, board meetings being dealt with in Chapter XIII. Besides general meetings of shareholders, there may also be class meetings, ¢.e. meetings of a particular class of share- holders summoned for a specific purpose specially affecting the class, and these are also dealt with here so far as they appear to require special mention. The provisions of the Act as to meetings while the company is a going concern are contained in a little group of ten sections, ss. 112-121, under the general title of ‘Meetings and Pro- ceedings.” S. 112 provides for the holding of the annual general meeting. S. 113 deals with the statutory meeting and statutory report. S. 114 treats of meetings convened on requisition. S. 115 (I) contains a few general regulations as to meetings, which apply in the very rare instances where a company’s articles contain no appropriate provisions, while s. 115 (2) enables the Court to give directions as to the con- vening, holding and conduct of a meeting in any case where it is impracticable to proceed under ‘the article or the Act. S. 116 provides for the representation of companies at meetings of other companies and of creditors. S. 117 defines extra- ordinary and special resolutions. S. 118 provides for the registration of certain resolutions and agreements. S. 119 provides that resolutions passed at adjourned meetings shall be treated as having been passed on the date on which they were in fact passed. S. 120 enjoins the keeping of minutes of general meetings and board meetings. S. 121 provides for the inspection of the minute books of general meetings. A meeting primd facie means a gathering of two or more persons. And the Courts have in two cases held that there cannot in general be a meeting of one person [Sharp v. Dawes (1877), 2 Q.B.D. 26; Sanitary Carbon Co. (1877), W.N. 223]. But, as Lord Coleridge said in Sharp v. Dawes, ‘It is, of course, possible to show that the word “meeting” has a meaning different from the ordinary meaning,” and this was 28

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