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 VIII. Transfer and transmission of shares

Collection:: Economics Books

TRANSFER AND TRANSMISSION OF SHARES #7 by a bank or a firm of standing. When one of the parties to a transfer is illiterate or infirm, and has executed the deed by making his mark, the attestation should state that the document has been read over and explained to the party, and that it appeared to have been understood by him ‘see Appendix F, Form 21); in a case of the kind there should be two witnesses, one of whom should be a doctor, a justice of the peace, a clergyman, a solicitor, or some other person of standing. The wife or husband of a transferor or transferee should not be accepted as a witness. Neither should the attestation by one of the parties to the transfer to the signature of the other be allowed. The address and occupation of a witness should be specified. The description of a witness, ‘clerk,’ or ‘married woman,” may be accepted, although the correct form should be ‘clerk to , ‘wife of .” In the case of a divorced woman the correct description is ‘single woman.” If a witness has signed in the wrong place, it may be accepted if the intention is clear. The same witness may attest both signatures. A transferee who is also a transferor need sign only once. Surviving holders in a joint account need not be so described on transfers. When shares are being sold by executors in their capacity of executors they should be so described in the transfer. But if they have been registered in their personal capacity, a transfer should not be accepted if they. as transferors, are described as ‘executors of . . . deceased. More than one account (e.g. two or more sellers to the same buyer) should not be allowed on the same transfer form; nor is it desirable to accept transfers of more than one class of shares or stock on the same transfer form. As regards the proper stamps on transfers, these will be Stamps found in the Inland Revenue Circular, dated January 1927 (see Appendix A). It must be remembered that, by s. 17 of the Stamp Act, 1891, ‘if any person whose office it is to enrol, register, or enter in or upon any rolls, books, or records, any instrument chargeable with duty, enrols, registers, or enters any such instrument not being duly stamped, he shall incur a fine of ten pounds.” This makes it incumbent upon the secretary to satisfy himself that transfers are properly stamped. If the consideration accords with the market price, and the stamp with both, there is no difficulty. If the stamp accords with the consideration, but the con- sideration is less than the market value, but near it, the secretary cannot be expected to do anything further. If the difference is considerable the transfer should be refused

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