Download or read book Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations, Vol. 1 of 6 (Classic Reprint) written by Seymour D. Thompson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations, Vol. 1 of 6 This is an attempt to state the law relating to corpo rations existing in the United States, except those created for governmental purposes. As will be seen by the analysis of the Whole work which immediately follows this preface, it is divided into nineteen separate titles. So great is the extent and variety of the questions under consider ation that it has been found necessary to distribute the matter in these titles into no less than two hundred and one chapters. Many of these chapters are so large that it has been necessary to subdivide them into sub chapters, called articles. For example, one of these chap ters contains fifteen, another twelve, others seven, and still others lesser numbers of these articles; so that many of the so-called chapters are really extensive titles. In many cases it has been found necessary, for the convenient and accurate grouping of subjects, to subdivide these articles into sub-articles, called subdivisions. The Whole work is again divided into about eight thousand separate para graphs, called sections. These sections form the units of grouping, of reference, and of indexing. The whole work is comprised in six volumes, of about eleven hundred pages each. The author finds his justification for the publication of so large a work upon a single title of the law, in the vast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.