Company directors : duties, liabilities, and remedies
Company directors
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
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| Omfang | cxciv, 1251 sider
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| Utgave | Fourth edition
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| Opplysninger | "Directors of a company are identified by their functions, rather than their descriptive title. The Joint Stock Companies Act 1844, the first of the Victorian statutes on company law, defined directors as 'the persons having the direction, conduct, management, or superintendence of the affairs of the company'. The Companies Act 1862 did not provide definitions, but since 1908 the Companies Acts have provided that in those Acts a director 'includes any person occupying the position of director, by whatever name called', so including de facto directors. Whereas the 1844 Act made it clear that the directors, not the shareholders, had the conduct of the ordinary management of the company, with power to make contracts, execute documents, and hire employees and agents, subsequent Companies Acts have imposed duties on directors, but left it to the company's constitution to provide for the directors' functions and powers"--
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| ISBN | 9780192842879
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