An Introduction to Company Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Legal Forms of Business | 10 |
Characteristics of a Registered Company | 14 |
Incorporation | 21 |
The Memorandum of Association | 32 |
The Articles of Association | 49 |
Promotion of Companies | 72 |
The Rule in Turquands Case | 78 |
The Raising of Capital | 81 |
Maintenance of Capital | 100 |
Loan Capital | 107 |
Receivers and Managers | 113 |
Dividends | 116 |
Membership | 121 |
Meetings | 128 |
Common terms and phrases
alteration annual general meeting apply appointed articles of association assets auditors Bahamas balance sheet Barbados Belize CARICOM Report chairman charge class of shares Company Law company limited company's affairs contract corporate court creditors debenture holders declaration dividend documents duty entitled exercise external company fiduciary filed fixed floating charge Foss v Harbottle Guyana held incorporation infra interest investments issue of shares issue shares Jamaica legislation liability liquidator loan loss account majority managing director memorandum of association normally notice number of shares objects clause ordinary resolution partnership payable payment private company profit and loss prospectus proxy public company purpose quorum receiver Region register of members registered office Registrar of Companies respect secretary share capital share warrant shareholders special resolution statutory sub-paragraph subscribers subsidiaries territory think fit trading transaction transfer Trinidad and Tobago ultra vires usually voluntary winding-up vote