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Corporate Personality
Indemnity and
Guarantee
Corporate Personality
Corporate personality may be defined as the
Concept of
A company is formed by
Incorporation
the process of
incorporation. This is an administrative
procedure, and its correct completion is both
necessary and sufficient for the company to
exist as an independent legal entity.
and can make contracts in its own name and on its own
behalf. In practice this will be done through the agency of
human beings, but it is essential to understand that as a
matter of law these acts will be the acts of the company.
Memorandum of association
The memorandum confirms that the subscribers wish
conflicts of interest;
Retaining records of directors decisions;
Appointment and removal of directors; etc.
Salomon v
Salomon
Public Company
A public, publicly traded, publicly held
company or public corporation is a
corporation whose ownership is dispersed
(isolated) among the general public in
many shares of stock which are freely
traded on a stock exchange or in over
the counter markets.
MODE OF WINDING
DEFINITION of 'Winding Up: The process of selling
UP
all the assets of a business, paying off creditors,
distributing any remaining assets to the principals or
parent company, and then dissolving the business.